Love and Loyalty in Middle English Romance
- Author / Editor
- Saunders, Corinne [J.]
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.