Married Love and Incarnational Imagery: Bernard of Clairvaux's 'Sermones Super Cantica Canticorum' Within Medieval Spirituality and as a Model for Love Allegory in Chaucer's 'Cant
- Author / Editor
- Moritz, Theresa Anne.
Married Love and Incarnational Imagery: Bernard of Clairvaux's 'Sermones Super Cantica Canticorum' Within Medieval Spirituality and as a Model for Love Allegory in Chaucer's 'Cant
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1982): 4445A.
- Description
- Certain twelfth-century mystics, especially Bernard of Clairvaux, interpreted the Song of Songs as figuring the love of God and man not only through heterosexual love but specifically as an ideal of marriage. In Chaucer's works both the concept of marriage and the imagery surrounding it relate to this tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.