Dante, Chaucer, and the Meaning of Love
- Author / Editor
- Morgan, Gerald.
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.