Literary Conventions of Courtly Love.

Author / Editor
Badessa, Richard Paul.

Title
Literary Conventions of Courtly Love.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Indiana, 1967. Dissertation Abstracts International 28.10 (1968): 4114A. Full-text access at ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global; accessed September 14, 2023.

Description
Surveys the conventions of English and French courtly literature, emphasizing backgrounds, setting, plot structure, the contributions of Machaut and Froissart, and the influence of the "Pearl." A closing chapter on BD explores how and in what ways Chaucer reacted to "didactic courtly love poetry" that has "lost touch with reality."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations