Chaucer's Lovers in Metaphorical Heaven
- Author / Editor
- Archibald, Elizabeth.
Chaucer's Lovers in Metaphorical Heaven
- Published
- Carolyn Muessig and Ad Putter, eds. Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages. Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture, no. 6 (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 222-36.
- Series
- Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture, no. 06.
- Description
- Archibald surveys Italian, French, and English literary instances of love compared to heaven, hell, paradise, or purgatory, commenting on Chaucer's uses in CT (WBT, KnT, and especially MerT) and LGW and exploring the more sustained use of this set of figures in TC.
- Contributor
- Muessig, Carolyn, ed
- Putter, Ad, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Legend of Good Women.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.