Dialogues of Love and Government : A Study of the Erotic Dialogue Form in Some Texts from the Courtly Love Tradition
ISBN: 9781443807388
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Literature;

Dialogues of Love and Government examines the use of the pseudo-Boethian didactic dialogue form in a wide range of Medieval texts on the theme of love by authors including Machaut, Froissart, Dante, Chaucer, Gower, Usk and Hoccleve. Although the broad, almost universal influence of Boethius in the Middle Ages has been much documented, the present study can be said to break new ground on several fronts. Firstly, whereas scholars have so far tended to focus on the visionary, Apocalyptic conve...


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