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Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer
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Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer (Medieval Cultures)Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer (Medieval Cultures)

Historicism and its discontents have long been central to the work of Louise Fradenburg, one of the world's most original and provocative literary medievalists.
Sacrifice Your Love develops the idea that sacrifice is a mode of enjoyment-that our willingness to sacrifice our desire is actually a way of pursuing it. Fradenburg considers the implications of this idea for various problems important in medieval studies today-how to understand the religiosity of cultural forms, particularly chivalry, in the later Middle Ages and how to understand the ethics of Chaucer's famously nondidactic poetry-as well as in other fields of inquiry.
 
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