--- Gordon Fisher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've been under the impression for some time that there is a passage
> in the
> works of St Thomas Aquinas discussing corporeality of angels which
> was
> satirized later by someone in terms of angels dancing on the head of
> a pin.
I have argued myself that the D-Group in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
satirizes the increasing subtlety of angelic speculation. See my "By
Preeve which that is Demonstratif" in Chaucer Review, vol. 12, no. 1
(Summer 1977).
Elasticus.
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