Love and Virtue in Middle English and Middle Scots Poetry
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Love and Virtue in Middle English and Middle Scots Poetry

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Love and Virtue in Middle English and Middle Scots Poetry

About this book

The book provides the first comprehensive study of love and ethics in Middle English and Middle Scots poems written at the close of the Middle Ages by Geoffrey Chaucer, James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas. It shows that medieval poems often reveal a pattern in which an individual moves from selfish to selfless concerns, and how this movement is incited by love, while fulfilled through virtue. By taking into account the English and Scottish cultural contexts, as well as other traditions of writing, the book shows how the ideas on human well-being were disseminated and adjusted to meet cultural changes. In this, the book contributes to a discussion on what constitutes "mindful" or "virtuous" living, a discussion that is as relevant today as it was in the Middle Ages.

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Yes, you can access Love and Virtue in Middle English and Middle Scots Poetry by Dominika Ruszkiewicz, Magdalena Bator in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Biographies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Peter Lang Group
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9783631861738
eBook ISBN
9783631861745
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Information
  3. Copyrigh Infromatiom
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of abbreviations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction: Which Love and Which Morality?
  9. Chapter One Love and Moral Perfection: Medieval Literary and Cultural Traditions
  10. Chapter Two Love and Reason: The Romaunt of the Rose and The Goldyn Targ
  11. Chapter Three Love and the Virtue of Necessity: Chaucer’s Boethian Poems and James I’s The Kingis Quair
  12. Chapter Four Love and the Virtue of Honor: The House of Fame and The Palis of Honoure
  13. Chapter Five Love and the Common Good: The Parliament of Fowls and The Thrissill and the Rois
  14. Chapter Six The Virtue of Love: Troilus and Criseyde and The Testament of Cresseid
  15. Afterword
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index of Names
  18. Index of Works and Characters
  19. Index of Terms
  20. Series index