The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales / / Manish Sharma.

The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an "insoluble." Philosophers of the fourteenth century expended great effort to solve insolubilia, like the notorious Liar p...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (406 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Flesh and Word in the General Prologue
  • 1 Judge Not: The Nun’s Priest on Logic, the Franklin on Love
  • 2 Lest Ye Be Judged: Fragment 1 and the Law of Unintended Consequences
  • 3 Vengeance and Forgiveness in Fragments 2 and 3
  • 4 Reading Griselda Charitably in Fragment 4
  • 5 Governance and Rebellion in Fragment 6
  • 6 Loving the Prioress in Fragment 7
  • 7 Loving Chaucer: Judgment and Charity in Fragments 8–10
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Index