The 'Religion of Love' in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' and Medieval Visual Art
- Author / Editor
- Blamires, Alcuin.
The 'Religion of Love' in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' and Medieval Visual Art
- Published
- Karl Josef Holtgen, Peter M. Daly, and Wolfgang Lottes, eds. Words and Visual Imagination: Studies in Interaction of English Literature and the Visual Arts. (Erlangen: Universitatsbibliothek Erlangen-Nurnberg, 1988), pp. 11-31.
- Description
- Medieval concepts of love and sex were derived from the worship of Venus, the goddess of love. Art of the period shows men worshipping Venus, as well as men and women trying to win each other's love.
- Alternative Title
- Words and Visual Imagination: Studies in Interaction of English Literature and Visual Arts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.