Love And Marriage In The Age Of Chaucer
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Love And Marriage In The Age Of Chaucer
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Author : H.A. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2004-01-30
Love And Marriage In The Age Of Chaucer written by H.A. Kelly and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-30 with History categories.
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 medieval lovers favored matrimony and did not consider sexual passion incompatible with virtue. His evidence contradicts the theory, closely associated with C.S. Lewis, that extramarital love was preferred in the Middle Ages, and that the sexual pleasures celebrated by poets were necessarily regarded as immoral by society at large. By placing religious and cultural conventions in their proper context, Professor Kelly shows that the hopes and fears of medieval lovers were much the same as those of lovers of all other ages.
Love And Marriage In The Age Of Chaucer
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Author : Henry Ansgar Kelly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975-01-01
Love And Marriage In The Age Of Chaucer written by Henry Ansgar Kelly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975-01-01 with categories.
The Canterbury Tales
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-30
The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-30 with Drama categories.
This adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales explores the bawdy humor of The Miller's Tale, The Merchant's Tale, The Nun's Priest's Tale, and The Wife of Bath's Prologue. Prochaska infuses The Franklin's Tale with a hefty dose of comedy as the characters navigate their way through a rocky coastline and an awkward love triangle. Faithful to the original, this text is accessible to a young twenty-first century audience for whom it may be an introduction to Chaucer's wise and gentle satire on love, marriage, and sex. "CANTERBURY TALES is not centered on sex but [it] does not shy from the pilgrims' raunchiness, and...it was taken directly from Chaucer's original stories of an odd-lot of women and men headed for England's famous cathedral... Adapter Reiner Prochaska has pulled off a marvelous script, translated into modern English; he begins with Geoffrey Chaucer's strange language that was spoken in his time, long before the age of Shakespeare, when England still paid homage to Rome and the pope. No religious overtones, let me reassure readers, creep into the tales of fellow travelers who are much more concerned with life's harrows and `country matters' than God's or the Vatican's doings. In that era, they could not count on sticking around a long time and that made every day precious. And that's what Chaucer captured and playwright Prochaska affirms." Roy Meachum, The Tentacle
Chaucer S Prayers
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Author : Megan E. Murton
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2020
Chaucer S Prayers written by Megan E. Murton and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
In a culture as steeped in communal, scripted acts of prayer as Chaucer's England, a written prayer asks not only to be read, but to be inhabited: its "I" marks a space that readers are invited to occupy. This book examines the implications of accepting that invitation when reading Chaucer's poetry. Both in his often-overlooked pious writings and in his ambitious, innovative pagan narratives, the "I" of prayer provides readers with a subject-position thatcan be at once devotional and literary - a stance before a deity and a stance in relation to a poem. Chaucer uses this uniquely open, participatory "I" to implicate readers in his poetry and to guide their work of reading. In examining Christian and pagan prayers alongside each other, Chaucer's Prayers cuts across an assumed division between the "religious" and "secular" writings within Chaucer's corpus. Rather, it emphasizes continuities andapproaches prayer as part of Chaucer's broader experimentation with literary voice. It also places Chaucer in his devotional context and foregrounds how pious practices intersect with and shape his poetic practices. These insightschallenge a received view of Chaucer as an essentially secular poet and shed new light on his poetry's relationship to religion.
Love Sex Marriage Middle Age
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Author : Conor McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Love Sex Marriage Middle Age written by Conor McCarthy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with History categories.
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Love Sex Marriage In The Middle Ages
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Author : Conor McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Love Sex Marriage In The Middle Ages written by Conor McCarthy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with History categories.
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Chaucer Boccaccio And The Debate Of Love
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Author : N. S. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1999
Chaucer Boccaccio And The Debate Of Love written by N. S. Thompson and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature categories.
Although the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular medieval collections of framed narratives to examine the texts as a whole. The present study goes well beyond shared general similarities and the inconclusive search for source or analogue material in order to look at the internal dynamics of each text and the surprising similarities that emerge there in terms of theories of literature, authority and authorship and the particular reader response envisaged by their authors.
Love And Marriage In Three English Authors
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Author : Willene van Loenen Pursell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Love And Marriage In Three English Authors written by Willene van Loenen Pursell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Love in literature categories.
Viator
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Author : University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
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Viator written by University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Nature Of Love Volume 2
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Author : Irving Singer
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2009-02-20
The Nature Of Love Volume 2 written by Irving Singer and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-20 with Philosophy categories.
An examination of ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and the transition into later Romantic love, analyzing the work of Dante, Shakespeare, and Schopenhauer, among many others. Review), "monumental" (Boston Globe), "one of the major works of philosophy in our century" (Nous), "wise and magisterial" (Times Literary Supplement), and a "masterpiece of critical thinking [that] is a timely, eloquent, and scrupulous account of what, after all, still makes the world go round" (Christian Science Monitor). In the second volume, Singer studies the ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and nineteenth-century Romantic love, as well as the transition between these two perspectives. According to the traditions of courtly love in the twelfth century and thereafter, not only God but also human beings in themselves are capable of authentic love. The pursuit of love between man and woman was seen as a splendid ideal that ennobles both the lover and the beloved. It was something more than libidinal sexuality and involved sophisticated and highly refined courtliness that emulated religious love in its ability to create a holy union between the participants. Adherents to Romantic love in later centuries, affirmed the capacity of love to effect a merging between two people who thus became one. Singer analyzes the transition from courtly to Romantic by reference to the writings of many artists beginning with Dante and ending with Richard Wagner, as well as Neoplatonist philosophers of the Italian Renaissance, Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer. In relation to romanticism itself, he distinguishes between two aspects—"benign romanticism" and "Romantic pessimism"—that took on renewed importance in the twentieth century.