The flight from desire [electronic resource] : Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer / Robert R. Edwards.

This book reformulates the master narrative of erotic discourse in medieval literature. Individual chapters offer fresh readings of the nature and claims of erotic attachments in Abelard and Heloise, Marie de France, Jean de Meun, Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer - writers profoundly influenced by Augu...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Edwards, Robert, 1947-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects:	Desire in literature.