H. A. Kelly

Love and Marriage in the Age of Chaucer (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Spicing erudition with wit, Professor Kelly takes a new look at medieval attitudes toward love, sexuality, and marriage, and he corrects a number of long-standing misconceptions embodied in the concept of courtly love. Through a close examination of canon law, the common practice of clandestine marriage, writings on mysticism, and medieval poetry - particularly Gower's 'Confessio amantis' and Chaucer's romances and their sources - he concludes that medieval lovers favored matrimony and did not consider sexual passion incompatible with virtue. His evidence contradicts the theory, closely associated with C.S. Lewis, that extramarital love was preferred in the Middle Ages, and that the sexual pleasures celebrated by poets were necessarily regarded as immoral by society at large. By placing religious and cultural conventions in their proper context, Professor Kelly shows that the hopes and fears of medieval lovers were much the same as those of lovers of all other ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781725209619
• Artikelnr.: 60110105

Autorenporträt

Henry Ansgar Kelly trained in the classics and philosophy at St. Louis University (A.M., Ph.L, 1961) and in medieval and Renaissance literature at Harvard (Ph.D., 1965). He has taught at UCLA since 1967, and from 1998 to 2003 he served as Director of UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He has published two other books on medieval tragedy: 'Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages' (1993) and 'Chaucerian Tragedy' (1997).