'Affections of the Mind': The Politics of Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Lipton, Emma.
'Affections of the Mind': The Politics of Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 123A.
- Description
- Influenced by literature, the meaning of marriage changed radically in late-medieval England. Replacing the celebration of celibacy as reflecting union with Christ, earthly marriage validated itself in bourgeois ideology, as shown by FranT, Gower, the "Mary Plays from the N-Town Cycle," and Margery Kempe.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.