If Love It Is: Chaucer, Aquinas, and Love's Fidelity.
- Author / Editor
- Sherwin, Michael S.
If Love It Is: Chaucer, Aquinas, and Love's Fidelity.
- Published
- New Blackfriars 94 (2013): 456-74.
- Description
- Compares the depictions and analyses of love in TC, Annie Dillard's "The Maytrees" (2007), Thomas Aquinas, and modern psychologies of love, arguing that their underlying concerns with conflicts between passions and choices indicate that sustained love requires recurrent rituals, linking them with liturgical practices. Treats Criseyde's abandonment of Troilus as an understandable action because of their separation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde