The World Grown Old: The Significance of a Medieval Idea.
- Author/Editor
- Dean, James
- Title
- The World Grown Old: The Significance of a Medieval Idea.
- Published
- Dean, James. "The World Grown Old: The Significance of a Medieval Idea." Ph.D. Dissertation. Johns Hopkins University, 1971.
- Review
- Attempts to prove that the idea of the world growing old is a significant medieval way of assessing reality, not simply a "literary commonplace." Study analyzes "De Contemptu Mundi," CA, and Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale." [RFY1981]
- Date
- 1971
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis