Discuss the Treatment of Fin' amors in Chaucer's Work.(Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales)
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:13:22
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 7 pages (1789 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 7 pages (1789 words)
Fin' amors means "fine love" or "refined love" and has had a profound influence on attitudes towards, and between, lovers and beloveds for centuries. Essentially it is the knightly, or noble, worship of an ideal woman, in which the act of loving is in itself ennobling and refining. The ideals of fin' amors arose in twelfth century France and spread throughout western and northern Europe and is very much associated with the Middle Ages, when …
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…and Tale, ed. James Winny (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
SECONDARY WORKS
Bishop, Ian, The Narrative Art of the Canterbury Tales: A Critical Study of the Major Poems (London: Everyman's University Library, 1988)
Pearshall, Derek, The Canterbury Tales (London: Routledge, 1993)
Sullivan, Sheila (ed.), Critics on Chaucer: Readings in Literary Criticism (London: George Allen & Unwim Ltd, 1970)
Butcher, Andrew, and Brown, Peter, The Age of Saturn: Literature and History in the Canterbury Tales (Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd,1991)
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