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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... marriage . When Palamon survives as the sole claimant for her hand , the stately Duke of Athens calls the couple together to explain that their proposed marriage would imitate and join the cosmic bond of all things . He makes this point ...
... marriage . When Palamon survives as the sole claimant for her hand , the stately Duke of Athens calls the couple together to explain that their proposed marriage would imitate and join the cosmic bond of all things . He makes this point ...
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... marry : Boweth youre nekke under that blisful yok Of soverayntee , noght of servyse , Which that men clep spousaille or wedlok . ( 4 , 113-15 ) Yoke here figures the beneficial bond of marriage , but its bestial sugges- tions of a ...
... marry : Boweth youre nekke under that blisful yok Of soverayntee , noght of servyse , Which that men clep spousaille or wedlok . ( 4 , 113-15 ) Yoke here figures the beneficial bond of marriage , but its bestial sugges- tions of a ...
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... marriage and parenthood . A comparable moment occurs in the Canon's Yeoman's tale , when the Canon announces that a marriage of elements has been accomplished whose issue is a “ teyne of silver fyn " ( 8 , 1240-41 ) : and glad in every ...
... marriage and parenthood . A comparable moment occurs in the Canon's Yeoman's tale , when the Canon announces that a marriage of elements has been accomplished whose issue is a “ teyne of silver fyn " ( 8 , 1240-41 ) : and glad in every ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
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