Womanly Noblesse and the Psychology of Love

Author / Editor
Ruud, Jay.

Title
Womanly Noblesse and the Psychology of Love

Published
Geardagum 12 (1991): 15-34.

Description
In Wom Nob, Chaucer introduces a psychology of love new to English poetry that derives from Machaut's "'realist' scholastic psychology" and that parallels the works of "stilnovisti" such as Dante, Cavalcanti, and Guinizella.

Chaucer Subjects
Womanly Noblesse
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.