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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... women who exem- plify physical and moral waste . The tales repel by their exposition of pain and destruction rather ... women's sight to serve other than personal physical and social interests as well as the ability of their words to ...
... women who exem- plify physical and moral waste . The tales repel by their exposition of pain and destruction rather ... women's sight to serve other than personal physical and social interests as well as the ability of their words to ...
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... Women lower their natures by disdaining reason for carnal delight in their pursuit of women . Grisilde's love of Walter , on the other hand , serves a common profit by begetting children in an act of honesta copulatio , without having ...
... Women lower their natures by disdaining reason for carnal delight in their pursuit of women . Grisilde's love of Walter , on the other hand , serves a common profit by begetting children in an act of honesta copulatio , without having ...
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... woman's point of view . Man loves woman best when he loves the universal bond of love her being figures and the holy spirit it encloses . It would then seem that women should love men in return for loving the best in them . In the Book ...
... woman's point of view . Man loves woman best when he loves the universal bond of love her being figures and the holy spirit it encloses . It would then seem that women should love men in return for loving the best in them . In the Book ...
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