Chaucer's Use of Courtly Love Terms PART I

Author / Editor
Hira, Toshinori.

Title
Chaucer's Use of Courtly Love Terms PART I

Published
Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Humanities 13 (1972): 53-66.

Description
Surveys Chaucer's uses of courtly notions in his poetry, focusing on courtesy, service, connections with feudalism and Christianity, and the lady's grace and mercy; also comments on the negative qualities of somnolence and gluttony. Draws examples from a range of works, including Rom, KnT, LGWP, BD, Mars, John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and "A Hymn to the Virgin."

Chaucer Subjects
Romaunt of the Rose
Knight and His Tale
Legend of Good Women
Book of the Duchess
Complaint of Mars