Chaucer's chain of love
By: Paul Beekman Taylor.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Love in literature.; Christian poetry, English (Middle) -- History and criticism.; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.; Philosophy, Medieval, in literature.
Other titles: Chain of love
Description: This book explores the Chain of Love, a Platonic metaphor for the invisible bond between Creator and Creation, for the space between beginnings and ends of temporal succession, and for the heard, or unheard, word between thought and deed, or between contrition and satisfaction in the process of penitence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index.