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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... mouth of those who can not see through events to their order and governance in the process of all things . In brief , Theseus's attribution of the " faire cheyne of love " to Jupiter accords with Platonic allegoresis , but not with the ...
... mouth of those who can not see through events to their order and governance in the process of all things . In brief , Theseus's attribution of the " faire cheyne of love " to Jupiter accords with Platonic allegoresis , but not with the ...
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... mouth's dalliance to reach with a tactical nexus on her natural good ( 1 , 3276 ) . Since Alison belongs in marriage to an old carpenter named John , Nicholas imitates the secret God whose word impregnates the womb of Mary . " Another ...
... mouth's dalliance to reach with a tactical nexus on her natural good ( 1 , 3276 ) . Since Alison belongs in marriage to an old carpenter named John , Nicholas imitates the secret God whose word impregnates the womb of Mary . " Another ...
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... mouth moste han a likerous tayl . In wommen vinolent is no defence . ( 3 , 464-67 ) As if mimicking the Wife , the Pardoner exclaims that he will “ drynke licour of the vyne , / And have a joly wenche in every toun " ( 6 , 452–53 ) ...
... mouth moste han a likerous tayl . In wommen vinolent is no defence . ( 3 , 464-67 ) As if mimicking the Wife , the Pardoner exclaims that he will “ drynke licour of the vyne , / And have a joly wenche in every toun " ( 6 , 452–53 ) ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
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