'Gradus Amoris': The Five Steps of Lechery
- Author / Editor
- Olsen, Vicki.
'Gradus Amoris': The Five Steps of Lechery
- Published
- [Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 36-62.
- Description
- Aligns the five fingers of lechery (ParsT 10. 852-64) with the conventions of courtly love and those of mystical love, using them to assess several lovers of CT (Palamon and Arcite of KnT, Nicholas and Absalon of MilT, and Aurelius of FranT).
- Alternative Title
- Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale
- Miller and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale