Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
The Reality of Courtly Love....Pages 7-24
Love Before Troilus....Pages 25-43
Love and Loyalty in Middle English Romance....Pages 45-61
“The Unequal Scales of Love”: Love and Social Class in Andreas Capellanus’s De Amore and Some Later Texts....Pages 63-79
Troilus and Criseyde: Love in a Manner of Speaking....Pages 81-97
The Wisdom of Old Women: Alisoun of Bath as Auctrice....Pages 99-114
“Nat That I Chalange Any Thyng of Right”: Love, Loyalty, and Legality in the Franklin’s Tale....Pages 115-130
Some New Thing: The Floure and The Leafe and the Cultural Shift in the Role of the Poet in Fifteenth-Century England....Pages 131-146
Romancing the Rose: The Readings of Chaucer and Christine....Pages 147-162
Entrapment or Empowerment? Women and Discourses of Love and Marriage in the Fifteenth Century....Pages 163-178
Writing About Love in Late Medieval Scotland....Pages 179-196
Back Matter....Pages 197-204