Love and Marriage in the Age of Chaucer

by Henry Ansgar Kelly

Book Overview

Spicing erudition with wit, Professor Kelly takes a new look at medieval attitudes toward love, sexuality, and marriage, and he corrects a number of long-standing misconceptions embodied in the concept of courtly love. Through a close examination of canon law, the common practice of clandestine marriage, writings on mysticism, and medieval poetry - particularly Gower's 'Confessio amantis' and Chaucer's romances and their sources - he concludes that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592445225
• ISBN13: 9781592445226
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"