'Gradus Amoris': The Five Steps of Lechery

Author / Editor
Olsen, Vicki.

Title
'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