Affections of the Mind: The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Lipton, Emma.
Affections of the Mind: The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature
- Published
- Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- x, 246 pp.
- Description
- Depictions of marriage in a range of late Middle English texts engage concerns with lay and ecclesiastical authority and promote interests of "the lay middle strata." The book opens with a reading of how FranT expresses in its "discourse of mutuality" a "vocabulary for promoting civic values" appropriate to the Franklin's social position. Subsequent chapters consider Gower's "TraitieĢ pour Essampler les Amantz Marietz," the N-Town Mary plays, and "The Book of Margery Kempe."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale