Henry A Kelly

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Love and Marriage in the Age of ChaucerPaperback, 30 January 2004

Love and Marriage in the Age of Chaucer
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360 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Date Published
30 Jan 2004
ISBN-10
1592445225
ISBN-13
9781592445226

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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.

Product Details

Authors:
Henry A KellyH a Kelly
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
30 January 2004
Dimensions:
21.79 x 14.17 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
1592445225
ISBN-13:
9781592445226
Language:
English
Location:
Eugene
Pages:
360
Weight:
444.52 gm

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