The Stag of Love: The Chase in Medieval Literature

Author / Editor
Thiébaux, Marcelle.

Title
The Stag of Love: The Chase in Medieval Literature

Published
Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1974.

Physical Description
249 pp.; 19 b&w illus.

Description
Traces the varieties of the stag-hunt motif in the art and literature of the Middle Ages, including classical roots, considering hunting manuals, imagery and fictive presentations, and allegorical uses. Includes recurrent references to Chaucer's works and sustained discussion of BD (pp. 115-27), observing how the hunt of the hart functions structurally in the poem and how its play on "hart" and "heart" has thematic resonance.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess