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Lois Roney.
Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Theories of Scholastic Psychology.
Tampa: South Florida U.P., 1990.
ISBN 0813010276.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 152x228x29mm.
Page count: xviii,376pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: covers have some mild scuffs and marks, but are not too badly worn; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 664g.

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Contents:
1. Universal psychologies — faculty component: Palamon & Arcite — scholastic will/intellect debate; Theseus — Chaucer’s humanist determinatio; Goal of a universal psychology — certitude vs. choice;
2. Thinking processes & language use: Sophismata sequence on the scholastic thinking acts; Saturn — Chaucer’s sophisma on human subjectivity; Method of a universal psychology — logic vs. experience;
3. Makers & contexts: The Knight; The pilgrimage reality; Chaucerian didacticism.
Appendices: Chaucer’s exchange of dictions between Palamon & Arcite; Use of Boethian phrases & ideas in Theseus's prime mover speech; Thinking act 3 — inference to causes — sample analyses of Lygurge/Emetreus possessions.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: 2
Illustrations: 9, monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 17pp
Indexes: General; Knight’s Tale.

See also | Canterbury Tales |
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