'Mutatio Amoris': 'Penitentia' and the Form of 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].
'Mutatio Amoris': 'Penitentia' and the Form of 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Genre 14 (1981): 163-69.
- Description
- BD's central theme is that change is necessary and inevitable and must be graciously accepted. Initially the Black Knight avoids change; by the end of BD he is reconciled with, and embraces, change. In BD, Chaucer succeeds in his portrayal of arguments as a theological poet.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.