Courtly Love and Christian Marriage: Chrétien de Troyes, Chaucer, and Henry VIII
- Author / Editor
- Jeffrey, David Lyle.
Courtly Love and Christian Marriage: Chrétien de Troyes, Chaucer, and Henry VIII
- Published
- Christianity and Literature 59 (2010): 515-30.
- Description
- Chrétien's "Erec and Enide" does not celebrate courtly love but provides a "model for rightly ordered desire." Chaucer highlights the "social and spiritual value" of marriage in CT, PF, TC, and various lyrics. Henry VIII's own theatrics, however, "strip the . . . literary conventions of their irony."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Lyrics and Short Poems