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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Page 90
... reflects God's logos , the latter giving life and the former destroying it . The Parson reminds his listeners that the confession which conjoins contrition to satisfaction requires speech . Only the mute can confess without oral ...
... reflects God's logos , the latter giving life and the former destroying it . The Parson reminds his listeners that the confession which conjoins contrition to satisfaction requires speech . Only the mute can confess without oral ...
Page 125
... reflects Satan as well as God , no matter what the knight takes her to be . Just as the summoner in the Friar's tale makes a contract with a yeoman whose diabolic identity he does not take seriously , the Wife's knight contracts a ...
... reflects Satan as well as God , no matter what the knight takes her to be . Just as the summoner in the Friar's tale makes a contract with a yeoman whose diabolic identity he does not take seriously , the Wife's knight contracts a ...
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... reflects the the Wife's hag as mediator of bodily interests which figure interests of the soul ; and , like the ... reflects the cupidinous occupation which the Pardoner attributes to himself in the professional use of his mouth . The ...
... reflects the the Wife's hag as mediator of bodily interests which figure interests of the soul ; and , like the ... reflects the cupidinous occupation which the Pardoner attributes to himself in the professional use of his mouth . The ...
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