'Under the Schaddow of Ane Hawthorne Grene': The Hawthorn in Medieval Love Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Eberly, Susan Schoon.
'Under the Schaddow of Ane Hawthorne Grene': The Hawthorn in Medieval Love Poetry
- Published
- David Chamberlain, ed. New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems (Lanham, Md.; New York; and London: University Press of America, 1993), pp. 15-39.
- Description
- Surveys the biblical, folkloric, and courtly imagery of thorns and hawthorn trees, which indicate the "presence of misguided love." Considers use of the imagery in a wide variety of works, including KnT and some Chaucerian apocrypha.
- Alternative Title
- New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.