Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry

by Theresa Tinkle

Medieval Venuses and Cupids analyses the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth (including astrology, natural philosophy, and commentaries on classical Roman literature), and French conventions that associate Venus and Cupid with Ovidian arts of love. Whereas existing studies of Venus and Cupid contend that they always and everywhere represent two loves (good and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804725152
• ISBN13: 9780804725156
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"