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Writings on love in the English Middle Ages /

1403983534

9781403983534

1403968489

1403983534

9781403968487

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Writings on love in the English Middle Ages /

[Book]

edited by Helen Cooney.

1st ed.

New York :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2006.

©2006

1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages)

Studies in Arthurian and courtly cultures.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Derek Pearsall -- Introduction / Helen Cooney -- The Tenacity of Courtly Love / Bernard O'Donoghue -- Love before Troilus / Helen Cooper -- Love and Loyalty in Middle English Romances / Corinne Saunders -- "The Unequal Scales of Love": Love and Social Class in Andreas Capellanus' De Amore and Some Other Texts / John Scattergood -- "Swich a so my wit kan nat diffyne": Defining Loves in Troilus and Criseyde / Barry Windeatt -- Passion, Interiority, and Philosophical Debate in Troilus / Helen Phillips -- To see and Not To Be Seen: "The Flower and the Leafe" and Social and Aesthetic Crisis in the Fifteenth Century / Helen Cooney -- The Wisdom of Old Women: Alisoun of Bath as Auctrice / Alastair Minnis -- "Nat that I chalange any thing of right": Love, Loyalty, and Legality in the Franklin's Tale / Neil Cartlidge -- Romancing the Rose: The Readings of Chaucer and Christine / Martha Driver -- Entrapment or Empowement? Women and Discourses of Love and Marriage in the Fifteenth Century / Carol M. Meale -- Writing about Love in Late Medieval Scotland / Priscilla Bawcutt.

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This book offers a multi-faceted view on the wide variety of late-medieval writings on love with which it deals and seeks to respect and reflect their great diversite. Hence it represents an important and timely modification of the rather monolithic views on medieval writings on love which have prevailed ever since Lewis' Allegory of Love. The essays discuss issues such as the relevance or otherwise to English, Anglo-Norman, and Scottish writings of the continental ethos of fyn amor, the importance of social class in medieval discourses on love, and the question of whether gender was a determining factor in the construction of these texts. In keeping with the volume?s fundamental belief in variety and debate, the essays themselves contain an internal dialectic, with individual scholars expressing different views of similar bodies of work or even individual texts. The contributors to this volume are among the foremost scholars working in the field of medieval studies today.

Palgrave Macmillan

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Writings on love in the English Middle Ages.

English literature-- Middle English, 1100-1500-- History and criticism.

Love in literature.

English literature-- Middle English.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Love in literature.

LIT-- 004120

Cooney, Helen,1962-

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