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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... Providence itself is out of time as logos , but in time as actus . The logos has an eternal life before and after time and space , and so time is , in this frame of thought , no more than a term designating measure of the duration of ...
... Providence itself is out of time as logos , but in time as actus . The logos has an eternal life before and after time and space , and so time is , in this frame of thought , no more than a term designating measure of the duration of ...
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... Providence . The Squire's Canacee is " ful measurable " when she intervenes for the love - wounded hawk ( 5 , 362 ) , and the Physician's Virgina is a perfection of mean who scorns time's shifts of nature ( 6 , 67-68 ) . Curiously , her ...
... Providence . The Squire's Canacee is " ful measurable " when she intervenes for the love - wounded hawk ( 5 , 362 ) , and the Physician's Virgina is a perfection of mean who scorns time's shifts of nature ( 6 , 67-68 ) . Curiously , her ...
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... Providence , it is the basest of human organs according to the Parson's scale of lechery ( CT 10 , 862 ) . The wombs of Chaucer's Wife and Jean's La Vieille are not engaged in the honesta copulatio of the mediatrix mother , but rather ...
... Providence , it is the basest of human organs according to the Parson's scale of lechery ( CT 10 , 862 ) . The wombs of Chaucer's Wife and Jean's La Vieille are not engaged in the honesta copulatio of the mediatrix mother , but rather ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
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