'Affections of the Mind': The Politics of Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature

Author / Editor
Lipton, Emma.

Title
'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.