What Kind of Words Are These? Courtly and Marital Words of Love in the 'Franklin's Tale' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'
- Author / Editor
- Jost, Jean [E.]
What Kind of Words Are These? Courtly and Marital Words of Love in the 'Franklin's Tale' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'
- Published
- Albrecht Classen, ed. Words of Love and Love of Words in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008), pp. 395-420.
- Description
- Courtly literature is an intellectual battleground in which reversals of gender and social positions clash. The men's rhetorical competition in FranT shows a courtly love of words.
- Contributor
- Classen, Albrecht, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Words of Love and Love of Words in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale