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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... soul : “ Every soul in this world is allured by musical sounds so that not only those who are more refined in their habits , but all the barbarous peoples as well , have adopted songs by which they are informed with courage or wooed to ...
... soul : “ Every soul in this world is allured by musical sounds so that not only those who are more refined in their habits , but all the barbarous peoples as well , have adopted songs by which they are informed with courage or wooed to ...
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... soul , body , and noys , or the universal intellect which joins them ( Ennead 3 , 9 , 1 ) . Boethius divides soul into three powers : one which supports life , one which provides for rational thought and , between them , perception , or ...
... soul , body , and noys , or the universal intellect which joins them ( Ennead 3 , 9 , 1 ) . Boethius divides soul into three powers : one which supports life , one which provides for rational thought and , between them , perception , or ...
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... soul " and " Christ's soul " are expressions found nowhere else in the Canter- bury Tales outside the Miller's and Reeve's tales . " God's soul " sounds strange in the mouth of a clerk , since God is rather than contains soul . 26. See ...
... soul " and " Christ's soul " are expressions found nowhere else in the Canter- bury Tales outside the Miller's and Reeve's tales . " God's soul " sounds strange in the mouth of a clerk , since God is rather than contains soul . 26. See ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
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