Love and Virtue in Middle English and Middle Scots Poetry

ISBN-13: 9783631861738 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 238 str.

Dominika Ruszkiewicz

Opis

The book provides the first comprehensive study of love and ethics in late medieval poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer, James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas. It shows how the ideas on love, virtue, and human well-being were disseminated between England and Scotland and adjusted to meet cultural changes.

Spis treści

Love and Moral Perfection

Love and Reason. The Romaunt of the Rose, The Goldyn Targe

Love and Necessity. Chaucer's Boethian Poems, The Kingis Quair

Love and Honor. The House of Fame, The Palis of Honoure

Love and the Common Good. The Parliament of Fowls, The Thrissill and the Rois

The Virtue of Love. Troilus and Criseyde, The Testament of Cresseid

O autorze

Dominika Ruszkiewicz is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Modern Languages at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Kraków. Her main field of study is Middle English and Middle Scots poetry, with a particular focus on Geoffrey Chaucer, James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas.