Love, Troth, and Magnamity: The 'Weltanschauung' of the Breton Lay for Marie de France to Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Larson, Leah Jean.
Love, Troth, and Magnamity: The 'Weltanschauung' of the Breton Lay for Marie de France to Chaucer
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 1610A
- Description
- The world view of the Breton Lay, as conceived by Marie de France, changed little before 1400. In FranT, Chaucer expands the genre with increased emphasis on passionate and "egalitarian" love in marriage, troth, and magnanimity, as solution to the marriage debate.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.