Via erotica/via mystica : A Tour de Force in the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Bodden, M. C.
Via erotica/via mystica : A Tour de Force in the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Susannah Mary Chewning, ed. Intersections of Sexuality and the Divine in Medieval Culture: The Word Made Flesh (Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 51-73.
- Description
- The carnal quest in MerT has as its goal an erotic union in the "paradys terrestre." This desire is fulfilled in an inverted via mystica, enforcing the ambiguity of mystical language as a mode of knowing.
- Contributor
- Chewning, Susannah Mary , ed.
- Alternative Title
- Intersections of Sexuality and the Divine in Medieval Culture: The Word Made Flesh.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.