Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages

HELEN COONEY is Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance English, Trinity College, Dublin. She is the editor of Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry (Dublin, 2001) and of several articles on Chaucer and Spenser.

CONTENTS: Introduction; Helen Cooney The Reality of Courtly Love; Bernard O'Donoghue Love before Troilus; Helen Cooper Love and Loyalty in Middle English Romances; Corinne Saunders 'The Unequal Scales of Love': Love and Social Class in Andreas Capellanus' De Amore and Some Other Texts; John Scattergood Troilus and Criseyde: Love in a Manner of Speaking; Barry Windeatt The Wisdom of Old Women: Alisoun of Bath as Auctrice; Alastair Minnis 'Nat that I chalange any thing of right': Love, Loyalty and Legality in the Franklin's Tale; Neil Cartlidge The Floure and the Leafe and the Cultural Shift in the Role of the Poet in Fifteenth-Century England; Helen Cooney Romancing the Rose: the readings of Chaucer and Christine; Martha Driver Entrapment or Empowement? Women and Discourses of Love and Marriage in the Fifteenth Century; Carol M. Meale Writing about Love in Late Medieval Scotland; Priscilla Bawcutt