'Under the Schaddow of Ane Hawthorne Grene': The Hawthorn in Medieval Love Poetry

Author / Editor
Eberly, Susan Schoon.

Title
'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.