Dante, Chaucer, and the Meaning of Love

Author / Editor
Morgan, Gerald.

Title
Dante, Chaucer, and the Meaning of Love

Published
Eric Haywood and Barry Jones, eds. Dante Comparisons: Comparative Studies of Dante and Montale, Foscolo, Tasso, Chaucer, Petrarch, Propertius and Catullus (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1985), pp. 73-95.

Description
"Courtly love" is a critics' term that was never used by medieval poets. To understand Chaucer's treatment of love, we must turn not to the principles of courtly love but to medieval philosophy and the treatment of love by poets such as Dante.

Contributor
Haywood, Eric,
Jones, Barry,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
Dante Comparisons: Comparative Studies of Dante and Montale, Foscolo, Tasso, Chaucer, Petrarch, Propertius and Catullus.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.