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.]

Title
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