Chaucer's Chain of LoveThis book traces the thematic and structural implication for Chaucer's poetry of the chain of love between God and his creation, an image used by the Platonist philosophers of Chaucer's day, as well as by the church as a metaphor for God's providential love. As a structural principle, the chain of love is the intermediary between constituents of time, space, and words. |
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... amor . ( Cons . 2 , m . 8 , 13-15 ) [ Al this accordaunce and ordenaunce of thynges is bounde with love , that governeth erthe and see , and hath also commandement to the hevene . ] William of Conches ' Commentary on these lines ...
... amor . ( Cons . 2 , m . 8 , 13-15 ) [ Al this accordaunce and ordenaunce of thynges is bounde with love , that governeth erthe and see , and hath also commandement to the hevene . ] William of Conches ' Commentary on these lines ...
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... Amor vincit omnia . ( 1 , 158-62 ) With her prayer beads connecting her arm to an inscribed Amor , the Nun is as much an ambulant emblem of the cosmos as Alain's Nature , Boethius's Lady Philosophy , Holy Church , and the Virgin Mary ...
... Amor vincit omnia . ( 1 , 158-62 ) With her prayer beads connecting her arm to an inscribed Amor , the Nun is as much an ambulant emblem of the cosmos as Alain's Nature , Boethius's Lady Philosophy , Holy Church , and the Virgin Mary ...
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... Amor vincit omnia is ubiquitous in the Middle Ages . If its source is Virgil's Eclogues , 10 , 69 , its literary peregrinations move through secular to religious contexts . Virgil's line reads : Omnia vincit Amor , et cedamus Amori ...
... Amor vincit omnia is ubiquitous in the Middle Ages . If its source is Virgil's Eclogues , 10 , 69 , its literary peregrinations move through secular to religious contexts . Virgil's line reads : Omnia vincit Amor , et cedamus Amori ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
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