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Hugh White, Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition.-

Publication: Medium Aevum
Publication Date: 22-MAR-02
Format: Online - approximately 531 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Hugh White, Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition.-(book review)

Article Excerpt
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), ix + 278 pp. ISBN 0-19-818730-0. $65.00.

Characterized by meticulous and undogmatic scholarship, Hugh White's book will be an indispensable guide to the contradictoriness of Nature in medieval literature. In fulfilling its aim to `demonstrate the complexity of the tradition of thought of which Gower and Chaucer were heirs' (p. 7), it also scotches a long-standing myth that medieval culture comfortably harmonized the concept of the natural with the rational and moral. This is...

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