Chaucer and the 'Bona Matrimonii'
- Author / Editor
- Mogan, Joseph J., Jr.
Chaucer and the 'Bona Matrimonii'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 4.2 (1969): 123-41.
- Description
- Studies the "theology of marital relations" in MilT, WBP, and MerT, using ParsT as a partial statement of orthodoxy, surveying views from Augustine to Wyclif of the roles of procreation and pleasure in sexual relations between married partners, and arguing that Chaucer's Tales represent a comprehensive gamut of theological concerns and perspectives. A rigorous Augustinian view of good marriage is put forward in ParsT, moderated in MerT, and relaxed and modernized in WBP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Parson and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations