Medieval Skepticism and Chaucer: An Evaluation of the Skepticism of the 13th and 14th centuries of Geoffrey Chaucer and his Immediate Predecessors--An Era That Looked Back on An Age of Faith and Forward to An Age of Reason.

Title
Medieval Skepticism and Chaucer: An Evaluation of the Skepticism of the 13th and 14th centuries of Geoffrey Chaucer and his Immediate Predecessors--An Era That Looked Back on An Age of Faith and Forward to An Age of Reason.

Published
Thomas, Mary Edith. Medieval Skepticism and Chaucer: An Evaluation of the Skepticism of the 13th and 14th centuries of Geoffrey Chaucer and his Immediate Predecessors--An Era That Looked Back on An Age of Faith and Forward to An Age of Reason. New York: Williams Frederick, 1950. Reprint. New York: Cooper Square, 1971, pp. 5, 30, 70-72, 108, 109-10, 113, 118, 120, 130

Review
Argues that Gower satirized clergy; used “Gesta Romanorum”; was not skeptical about astrology; was piously superior to merchants. [RFY1981]

Date
1950

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations