The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales

by Manish Sharma

The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer's magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an "insoluble." Philosophers of the fourteenth century expended great effort to solve insolubilia, like the notorious Liar paradox, in order to decide upon their truth or falsity. For Chaucer, however, and in keeping with Christ's admonition from the Sermon on the Mount, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487509030
• ISBN13: 9781487509033
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"