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Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis: Confessio Amantis (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)
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ISBN: 041596976X
Author: Bakalian, Ellen S.
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Throughout the tales in the Confessio Amantis, John Gower proposes that reciprocal love is the remedy to what ails man and society. This book explores how Gower uses the aspects of love in the Confessio-the notions of kinde, or passionate love, and reason in the sphere of love; honeste love in the Marriage Tales of the Four Wives; passionate and excessive love in the Forsaken Women's tales; and Amans's lovesickness. In her thorough examination of Gower's work, Ellen S. Bakalian shows how Gower emphasizes and illustrates a belief that reason must rule man in all things, including his natural instincts to love.
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Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis: Confessio Amantis (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)