TY - BOOK ID - 77904194 TI - Medieval Venuses and Cupids : Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry PY - 2020 SN - 0804764808 9780804764803 0804725152 9780804725156 PB - Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English poetry KW - History and criticism. KW - Venus KW - Cupid KW - In literature. KW - Cupido KW - Amor KW - Amore KW - Eros KW - فينوس KW - Fīnūs KW - Venera KW - Венера KW - Gwener KW - Venuše KW - Βένους KW - Venous KW - Venere KW - ונוס KW - Венус KW - ウェヌス KW - Uenusu KW - Wenus KW - Vèniri KW - Venuša KW - 维纳斯 KW - Weinasi UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77904194 AB - 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 evil), the author argues that medieval discourses actually promulgate diverse, multiple, and often contradictory meanings for the deities. The book establishes the range of meanings bestowed on the deities through the later Middle Ages, and draws on feminist and cultural theories to offer new models for interpreting both academic Latin discourses and vernacular poetry. ER -