Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages

1. Introduction
Helen Cooney

2. The Reality of Courtly Love
Bernard O’Donoghue

3. Love Before Troilus
Helen Cooper

4. Love and Loyalty in Middle English Romance
Corinne Saunders

5. “The Unequal Scales of Love”: Love and Social Class in Andreas Capellanus’s De Amore and Some Later Texts
John Scattergood

6. Troilus and Criseyde: Love in a Manner of Speaking
Barry Windeatt

7. The Wisdom of Old Women: Alisoun of Bath as Auctrice
Alastair Minnis

8. “Nat That I Chalange Any Thyng of Right”: Love, Loyalty, and Legality in the Franklin’s Tale
Neil Cartlidge

9. Some New Thing: The Floure and The Leafe and the Cultural Shift in the Role of the Poet in Fifteenth-Century England
Helen Cooney

10. Romancing the Rose: The Readings of Chaucer and Christine
Martha W. Driver

11. Entrapment or Empowerment? Women and Discourses of Love and Marriage in the Fifteenth Century
Carol M. Meale

12. Writing About Love in Late Medieval Scotland
Priscilla Bawcutt

Keywords: Literature, Medieval Literature, Gender Studies, Fiction, World History, Global and Transnational History, Classical and Antique Literature