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Index
Figurae - READING MEDIEVAL CULTURE
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
A Note to the Reader
Introduction
Chapter I - Beyond Binary Thinking
“Courtly Love”
Two Loves: The Modern Origins
Two Venuses: The Medieval Origins
Simplifying Love
Alan of Lille, Chaucer, and the Critics
Beyond Binaries; Or, Getting Off the Horns of a Dilemma
Chapter 2 - Semiotic Nomads
An Overview of Mythography
Mythography from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages
Reading as Rewriting
Chapter 3 - Ambiguous Signs, Contingent Truths
Early Medieval Visions
Encyclopedism in the High Middle Ages
Late Medieval Revisions
Competing Discourses, Contradictory Perspectives
Chapter 4 - From Latin to Vernacular
Art and Sensuality
Absent Hermeneutics: The House of Fame and The Knight’s Tale
Ephemeral Hermeneutics: Lydgatean Poetry and Commentary
Contested Interpretations
Chapter 5 - Myths of a Venereal Nature
Natural Sexualities
Ideology and Physiology
Children of the Planet
Women and Venus
Flesh and Spirit
Venereal Orders and Disorders
Chapter 6 - Unnatural Acts
On Consulting a Learned Astronomer
The Textual Production of Desire
Cosmic Aesthetics
Chapter 7 - Remedia Amoris
Chapter 8 - Venus, Cupid, and English Poetry
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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