'Swiche Olde Lewed Wordes': Books about Medieval Love, Medieval Books about Love and the Medieval Book of Love
- Author / Editor
- Dove, Mary.
'Swiche Olde Lewed Wordes': Books about Medieval Love, Medieval Books about Love and the Medieval Book of Love
- Published
- Andrew Lynch and Philippa Maddern, eds. Venus and Mars (Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1995), pp. 11-33.
- Description
- Intertextual references in MerT invite recourse to medieval commentators on the Song of Solomon.
- The glosses on Solomon suggest views of medieval marriage and sexuality different from those of either C. S. Lewis or Michel Foucault.
- They provide a complex idea of Aristotelian "causes" of love, resisting the opposition of "literal" sexuality to "spiritual" sense that D. W. Robertson and David Aers have, in different ways, applied to Chaucer.
- Alternative Title
- Venus and Mars.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.