Marriage, Sexuality and the Family
- Author / Editor
- Cartlidge, Neil.
Marriage, Sexuality and the Family
- Published
- Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 218-40.
- Description
- Cartlidge examines the range of attitudes toward marriage, sexuality, and the family in CT - including questions of marriage as an ordering principle, sexuality as a threat to marriage, and sexuality as a form of aggression outside of marriage. Also assesses notions of extended family, maternal grief, and paternal affection. Considers MilT, RvT, MLT, WBPT, ClT, MerT, Sq-FranL, FranT, PhyT, PrT, and ParsT.
- Alternative Title
- A Concise Companion to Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales - General.