'Ratio Amoris' and 'Amor Rationis': The Struggle for Supremacy Between Love and Reason in 'The Romance of the Rose' and 'The Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Thompson, Jefferson M.

Title
'Ratio Amoris' and 'Amor Rationis': The Struggle for Supremacy Between Love and Reason in 'The Romance of the Rose' and 'The Knight's Tale'

Published
Piotr Fast and Wacław Osadnok, eds. From Kievan Prayers to Avantgarde: Papers in Comparative Literature (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Energeia, 1999), pp. 83-98.

Description
Thompson traces parallels among several dichotomies--eros and agape, cupiditas and caritas, love and reason--arguing that Chaucer was unsatisfied with the simple dichotomies he found in the "Roman de la Rose." In KnT, love is "reprimanded" as folly, but the supremacy of reason is challenged as well.

Contributor
Fast, Piotr, ed.
Odsadnod, Wacław, ed

Alternative Title
From Kievan Prayers to Avantgarde: Papers in Comparative Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.