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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... identifies as corruptibility . It reaches from God's idea to man's basest senses , and among the things between are reason and word . Boethius measures the distance between idea and sense with the female figure of Philosophy . From the ...
... identifies as corruptibility . It reaches from God's idea to man's basest senses , and among the things between are reason and word . Boethius measures the distance between idea and sense with the female figure of Philosophy . From the ...
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... identifies the mean ( with which he identifies himself ) as God's created sufficiency : ce sont deus extremités , richece et mendacités ; Le moien a non souffisance , La gist le vertu 32 CHAUCER'S CHAIN OF LOVE.
... identifies the mean ( with which he identifies himself ) as God's created sufficiency : ce sont deus extremités , richece et mendacités ; Le moien a non souffisance , La gist le vertu 32 CHAUCER'S CHAIN OF LOVE.
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... identifies as " temporality " — coexistent with divine being . " In 1 Timothy 6 : 16 , Paul says that God is he , qui solus habet immortalitatem , et lucem inhabitat inaccessibilem : quem nullus hominum videt [ who alone has immortality ...
... identifies as " temporality " — coexistent with divine being . " In 1 Timothy 6 : 16 , Paul says that God is he , qui solus habet immortalitatem , et lucem inhabitat inaccessibilem : quem nullus hominum videt [ who alone has immortality ...
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