Love and Disorder: A Fifteenth-Century Definition of Love and Some Literary Antecedents

Author / Editor
Moser, Thomas C., Jr.

Title
Love and Disorder: A Fifteenth-Century Definition of Love and Some Literary Antecedents

Published
James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 243-64.

Description
Analyzes a lyric with the invented title of "Inordinate Love Defined," which appears uniquely on the final leaf of a fifteenth-century manuscript, Copenhagen Thott 110, in the Royal Library. Also discusses briefly a lyric fragment of TC (1.400-406).

Alternative Title
Idea of Medieval Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.