Lovers and Their Critics: The Medieval Marriage and Sexuality Debates
- Author / Editor
- Heffley, Sylvia Patricia.
Lovers and Their Critics: The Medieval Marriage and Sexuality Debates
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3446A.
- Description
- Although Christian marriage was well defined by theologians in the twelfth through the thirteenth centuries, the proper role of sexuality remained debatable, as shown in the west portal of Senlis Cathedral, in Jean de Meun's introduction of the subject into vernacular literature in Roman de la Rose, and in Chaucer's varying treatment in WBP and WBT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.