Robert R. Edwards is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Dream of Chaucer: Representation and Reflection in Chaucer's Early Narrative; Ratio and Invention: A Study of Medieval Lyric and Narrative; The Poetry of Guido Guinizelli; and The Montecassino Passion and the Poetics of Medieval Drama. Stephen Spector is Professor of English at State University of New York at Stony Brook and the author of The Genesis of the N-town Cycle and Essays in Paper Analysis.

• Introduction Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector 1. "Adam's Only Companion": Augustine and the Early Christian Debate on MarriageElizabeth A. Clark 2. Maritalis Affectio RevisitedMichael M. Sheehan 3. Loving the Unequal Equal: Medieval Theologians and Marital AffectionErik Kooper 4. The Medieval Poet as VoyeurA. C. Spearing 5. Love and Power in the Twelfth Century, with Special Reference to Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de FranceR. W Hanning 6. Chastity and Love in the DecameronGiovanni Sinicropi 7. From Fin Amour to Friendship: Dante's TransformationJerome Mazzaro 8. Faithful Translations: Love and the Question of Poetry in ChaucerRobert R. Edwards 9. Man, Men, and Women in Chaucer's PoetryJohn M. Fyler 10. From Dorigen to the Vavasour: Reading BackwardsAlan T. Gaylord 11. Reason, Machaut, and the FranklinJames I. Wimsatt 12. Empathy and Enmity in the Prioress's TaleStephen Spector 13. "Loves Hete" in the Prioress's Prologue and TaleMarie Borroff Notes Contributors Index

"The work comprises essays on an important subject by well-known and excellent medievalists and will prove a most useful collection to those engaged in a study of love, sex, friendship, and their role in human civilization. All the essays in this collection are embedded in first-rate scholarship and presentation and will greatly enhance medieval critical study, especially that of Middle English literature." — Dorothee Metlitzki, Yale University