Love and Loyalty in Middle English Romance

Author / Editor
Saunders, Corinne [J.]

Title
Love and Loyalty in Middle English Romance

Published
Helen Cooney, ed. Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 45-61.

Description
Apart from Chaucer's works, most romances in Middle English "rewrite" their French and Latin analogues, representing the virtuous aspects of love rather than the conventions of the courtly game. Chaucer's writing exemplifies the "extremes of fin amour."

Alternative Title
Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.