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基本説明
The essays deal afresh with the question of the relevance of the 'fyn amour' ethos to English amatory texts.
Full Description
This is a set of essays from many of the leading scholars in the world of medieval studies, which addresses a wide diversity of texts and genres and their diverse perspectives on love. Attention is given to interaction between English writings and putative continental and international influences, with particular emphasis on the works of Chaucer.
Contents
CONTENTS: Introduction; Helen Cooney The Reality of Courtly Love; Bernard O'Donoghue Love before Troilus; Helen Cooper Love and Loyalty in Middle English Romances; Corinne Saunders 'The Unequal Scales of Love': Love and Social Class in Andreas Capellanus' De Amore and Some Other Texts; John Scattergood Troilus and Criseyde: Love in a Manner of Speaking; Barry Windeatt The Wisdom of Old Women: Alisoun of Bath as Auctrice; Alastair Minnis 'Nat that I chalange any thing of right': Love, Loyalty and Legality in the Franklin's Tale; Neil Cartlidge The Floure and the Leafe and the Cultural Shift in the Role of the Poet in Fifteenth-Century England; Helen Cooney Romancing the Rose: the readings of Chaucer and Christine; Martha Driver Entrapment or Empowement? Women and Discourses of Love and Marriage in the Fifteenth Century; Carol M. Meale Writing about Love in Late Medieval Scotland; Priscilla Bawcutt
