Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages
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Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages

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Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages

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This is a set of essays from many of the leading scholars in the world of medieval studies, which addresses a wide diversity of texts and genres and their diverse perspectives on love. Attention is given to interaction between English writings and putative continental and international influences, with particular emphasis on the works of Chaucer.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2006
ISBN
9781403983534
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Medieval & Early Modern Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Notes on Contributors
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 The Reality of Courtly Love
  7. 2 Love before Troilus
  8. 3 Love and Loyalty in Middle English Romance
  9. 4 “The unequal scales of love”: Love and Social Class in Andreas Capellanus’s De Amore and Some Later Texts
  10. 5 Troilus and Criseyde: Love in a Manner of Speaking
  11. 6 The Wisdom of Old Women: Alisoun of Bath as Auctrice
  12. 7 “Nat that I chalange any thyng of right”: Love, Loyalty, and Legality in the Franklin’s Tale
  13. 8 Some New Thing: The Floure and the Leafe and the Cultural Shift in the Role of the Poet in Fifteenth-Century England
  14. 9 Romancing the Rose: The Readings of Chaucer and Christine
  15. 10 Entrapment or Empowerment? Women and Discourses of Love and Marriage in the Fifteenth Century
  16. 11 Writing about Love in Late Medieval Scotland
  17. Index