How many people in the U.S. stood on me before three clock in the morning at the wedding of Prince William and see – now – the Princess Catherine. I live in the central time zone so it was time for me sooner than people in, say, New York. It was the race I made using “life in slow motion” in the subtitle of this article. I read a book about the lost art of reading, during those moments was released, does not seem particularly interested, although I considered on my TV screen is not often enough to miss something.
I am sure that many articles are written (already written) about the royal wedding, but still I can feel something that might be helpful to read say the same thing.
Host weddings beautiful. And it goes beyond the capacity of the plant – even those that cost a fortune and are the most important events can make people everywhere to be so. An interesting element for me in this case (and I’m sure for the others) Anglican church (Mass), was part of the royal wedding was. I missed the “I give you” phrase, but (with the word “share” instead), which has always been one of my favorite lines in a traditional marriage.
The interesting thing I want is zero in the sermon delivered by the Bishop of London. He said many things that were probably predictable and familiar to many people, but then a quote from Chaucer, which made me prick up their ears can notice. He has not the source, simply use the budget. Here (in modern English translation Nevill Coghill)
“Love is not limited by the field! / If it is in the field, stretch the God of love Anon / your wings and farewell is gone.”
The passage is from “Tale of Franklin” in The Canterbury Tales. What’s really interesting the offer is what happens to come from the past history of “group marriage”, and represents the perfect marriage after Chaucer. The series of stories that begin to participate in this group with the Wife of Bath, which puts women at the top of a marriage between a man and woman. The Secretary responds by holding the story of a woman who is obedient to a man, his cruel test.
This is followed by a cynical version of marriage, said the merchant, who not only marriage, but it is courtly love tradition, while always ridiculed as satisfying play basically nothing more than greed, and people. Franklin is the one who gives Chaucer a marriage 50-50 early in the story (at least in the Middle Ages, were arranged as marriages, but only if the husband was usually the lord and master, the absolute master of the singing voice). In “The Tale of Franklin” Women do not need a lover (as in the tradition of courtly love), because her husband is also her lover – and certainly not his master. There are in fact outside the scope of this marriage, because Chaucer recognized the fact back to the late 14th Century, the love, true love can exist only between equals.
And that has me sit and observe, if the Bishop of London, quoted the words “the story of Franklin” about love and the need for the absence of the “domain” of it. Is not it the case that there is a marriage between a prince – a member of the British royal family – and a commoner? During the wedding of Kate Middleton, of course, the Princess Catherine has become so in the area which they razed to marriage in a legal sense, too. But the fact is that his love was – and remains – the love between equals. In fact, just about the same as the God of love – the use of the traditional recipe – always smiling with a partner. A few lines after the date of the Bishop of London, uses the poet tells the necessity of this equality with the following words:
“Love is something that every free spirit. / Women are by nature always for freedom / And it is not forced or out of a slave, / And the people if I can speak for all”
I’m sure we all wish for Prince William and Princess Catherine aftering happy. However, there was a great event to watch, even if it took time with foreplay and followed the events, the ceremony itself. All in slow motion, if you want. But it’s worth the patience.
Steven C. Scheer is a retired professor of English. He has published literary criticism, film studies, fiction and essays. His fifth book, Dancing with the daffodils will be published in spring 2011. He continues to write on topics such as education and the arts of reading, but it is a very versatile writer interested in many topics. These interests are clearly identified in samples from several of his writings on his website. If you want to visit, just Google his name (including middle initials) and you’re sure to find.
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