Introduction: Sacrifice in Theory; 1. Becoming Medieval: Psychoanalysis and Historicism; 2. "My Worldes Blisse": Courtly Interiority in The Book of the Duchess; 3. The Ninety-six Tears of Chaucer's Monk; 4. Sacrificial Desire in Chaucer's Knight's Tale; 5. Loving Thy Neighbor: The Legend of Good Women; 6. "Oure Owen Wo to Drynke": Dying Inside in Troilus and Criseyde; Epilogue. Some Thoughts on the Humanities: Enjoying the Middle Ages; Notes; Index
Summary
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 and beyond
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-298) and index
