The Two Venuses and Courtly Love
- Author / Editor
- Economou, George D.
The Two Venuses and Courtly Love
- Published
- Ferrante, Joan M., and George D. Economou, eds. In Pursuit of Perfection: Courtly Love in Medieval Literature (Port Washington, NY, Kennikat, 1975), pp. 17-50.
- Description
- Distinguishes two kinds of love associated with Venus in the Middle Ages, both of them subsets of earthly love: one "legitimate, sacramental, natural, and in harmony with natural law; the other, illegitimate, perverted, selfish, and sinful." Traces the two kinds in patristic commentary, mythographic tradition, and vernacular literatures, including Chaucer--in PF and, more extensively, in TC, where the dual view of earthly love is cast in political and Boethian frames.
- Contributor
- Ferrante, Joan M, ed.
- Economou, George D., ed.
- Alternative Title
- In Pursuit of Perfection: Courtly Love in Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Parliament of Fowls