The Stag of Love: The Chase in Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Thiébaux, Marcelle.
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