Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages

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Preface / Derek Pearsall Introduction / Helen Cooney The reality of Courtly Love / Bernard O'Donoghue Love before Troilus / Helen Cooper Love and Loyalty in Middle English Romances / Corinne Saunders "The Unequal Scales of Love": Love and Social Class in Andreas Capellanus' De Amore and Some later Texts / John Scattergood Troilus and Criseyde: love in a manner of speaking / Barry Windeatt The Wisdom of Old Women: Alisoun of Bath as Auctrice / Alastair Minnis "Nat that I chalange any thing of right": Love, Loyalty, and Legality in the Franklin's Tale / Neil Cartlidge Romancing the Rose: The Readings of Chaucer and Christine / Martha Driver Entrapment or Empowerment? Women and Discourses of Love and Marriage in the Fifteenth Century / Carol M. Meale Writing about Love in Late Medieval Scotland / Priscilla Bawcutt.