Chaucer's 'fyn lovynge' and the Late Medieval Sense of 'fin amor'
- Author / Editor
- Reiss, Edmund.
Chaucer's 'fyn lovynge' and the Late Medieval Sense of 'fin amor'
- Published
- J. B. Bessinger and R. Raymo, eds. Medieval Studies in Honor of Lillian Herlands Hornstein (New York: New York University Press, 197), pp. 181-91.
- Description
- By the fourteenth century "fin amor" was associated with "legitimate married love and...Christian charity." Thus, when the God of Love in the Prologue to LGW refers to "fyn loving," Chaucer's meaning (whether ironic or not) is that of an ideal love. The ambiguous presentation here is another evidence of the difficulties of the poem in its concept of love.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Studies in Honor of Lillian Herlands Hornstein.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.