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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... appearance is accident . Familiar to Chaucer is the conventional philosophi- cal jargon of the schools used by Jean de Meun's Nature : Et muent par lor influances Les accidens et les sustances Des choses qui sont sous la lune . ( RR ...
... appearance is accident . Familiar to Chaucer is the conventional philosophi- cal jargon of the schools used by Jean de Meun's Nature : Et muent par lor influances Les accidens et les sustances Des choses qui sont sous la lune . ( RR ...
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... appearance , " and " figure " than either " spe- cies " or " ideal . " 12 In Scholastic Philosophy , form is actus in the world of being , while matter is possibilitas in the world of becoming . In Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose ...
... appearance , " and " figure " than either " spe- cies " or " ideal . " 12 In Scholastic Philosophy , form is actus in the world of being , while matter is possibilitas in the world of becoming . In Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose ...
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... appearance seems to have no effect upon Grisilde , and her resistance to deceptive appearances is a feature of her steadfastness . The narrator insists more upon her bounty , that combination of beauty and generosity of spirit which ...
... appearance seems to have no effect upon Grisilde , and her resistance to deceptive appearances is a feature of her steadfastness . The narrator insists more upon her bounty , that combination of beauty and generosity of spirit which ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
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Alceste amor Arcite argues Arveragus Aurelius body Boece Boethius Boethius's bond of love Cambridge Canon's Canterbury Canterbury Tales chain of love Chaucer's Chaucer's day Chaucer's poetry Chauntecleer ChauR Christ Christian cites Clerk cosmic courtly creation Criseyde Dante Dante's divine Dorigen dream eternal explains fictional figure Franklin's Tale gentilesse Geoffrey Chaucer God's grace Grisilde Grisilde's Harry heaven idea invisible Jill Mann John Jupiter Knight's tale language Legend London love's man's marriage meaning mediates Medieval Miller's narrative nature Oxford Pandarus Pardoner's Parliament of Fowls Parson Philosophy pilgrimage pilgrims Platonic poem poet Poetics Princeton Prologue purgatory quest Saturn says sense sexual shal sight soul Speculum spiritual story tale of Melibee Theseus Theseus's things Thopas Thopas's thynges Timaeus Troilus Troilus and Criseyde Troilus's University Press Venus Virgin virtue Walter Wife of Bath Wife's woman womb women words