... the Consolation of Philosophy, or its pervading dynamic, its sen', being that of moral consolation or instruction. Absolons comparison to a 'turtle dove' has superficially good associations with true love from both Courtly literature and the Song of Songs, but his mourning as dooth a lamb after the lese' is itself rather inconsistent with this model of Absolom as courtly lover, non symbolic as ... ' good and the ecclesiastical elevated notion of celibacy as itself the most elevated state. Marriage is seen as only for procreation; Margaret Gist draws our attention to the fact that in the ...

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