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Love and marriage in the age of Chaucer

Title
Love and marriage in the age of Chaucer / Henry Ansgar Kelly.
Author
Kelly, Henry Ansgar, 1934-
Publication
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1975.

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Description
359 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > Sources
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400
  • Gower, John 1330-1408
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey
  • Gower, John
  • To 1500
  • English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
  • Literature and society > England > History > To 1500
  • Social history > Medieval, 500-1500
  • Marriage customs and rites, Medieval
  • Courtly love in literature
  • Marriage in literature
  • Love in literature
  • Love
  • Courtly love
  • Literature
  • Love
  • Marriage > history
  • love (emotion)
  • Courtly love
  • Courtly love in literature
  • English poetry > Middle English
  • Literature and society
  • Love in literature
  • Marriage customs and rites, Medieval
  • Marriage in literature
  • Social history > Medieval
  • Ehe Motiv
  • English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
  • Love in literature > History and criticism
  • England
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
  • Sources
  • Sources.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Part 1 : Hymenaeus amorque : the compatibility of love and marriage. Guinevere, Marie of Champagne, and Heloise reviewed -- Criseida and Criseyde -- Part 2 : The age of Ovid. Ovid's endorsement of married love -- Chaucer and the martyrology of love -- John Gower : confessions of a penitent lover -- Part 3 : Clandestine marriage. Ecclesiastical precept and lay observance -- The witness of literature : in which the foregoing chapter is confirmed by sundry examples -- Ovid's heroines regularized -- Filocolo and Troilus -- Part 4 : Matrimonial sin and virtuous passion. The too ardent lover of his wife classified -- The mystical code of married love -- Envoy.
ISBN
  • 0801408814
  • 9780801408816
LCCN
74010414
OCLC
  • ocm01260819
  • 1260819
  • SCSB-14580280
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library