Courtly Love and Chivalry in the Later Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Benson, Larry D.
Courtly Love and Chivalry in the Later Middle Ages
- Published
- Robert Yeager, ed. Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays. (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984): pp. 237-57.
- Reprinted in Theodore M. Andersson and Stephen A. Barney, eds. Contradictions: From "Beowulf" to Chaucer (Aldershot, Hants: Scolar; Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1995), pp. 294-313.
- Description
- Though there may never have been a "doctrine" of courtly love,late-medieval literature reflects conventions that may be called courtly.
- Drawing examples from a number of literary works (including TC, Rom, BD, and LGW) and various historical records, Benson argues that medieval ceremonialism and gentle speech indicates internalization of courtly ideals drawn for romance tradition.
- Alternative Title
- Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays.
- Contradictions: From "Beowulf" to Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.