Author: Roger BoasePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719006562
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love
Author: Roger BoasePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719006562
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Art of Courtly Love
Author: Andreas (Capellanus.)Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231073059
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The social system of 'courtly love' soon spread after becoming popularized by the troubadours of southern France in the twelfth century. This book codifies life at Queen Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174 into "one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explain the secret of a civilization."
The Meaning of Courtly Love
Author: Herbert MollerAndreas Capellanus on Love
Author: Andreas (Capellanus.)Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : la
Pages : 358
Book Description
The De Amore of Andreas Capellanus (André the Chaplain), composed in France in the 1180s, is celebrated as the first comprehensive discussion of theory of courtly love. The book is believed to have been intended to portray conditions at Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174, and written the request of her daughter, Countess Marie of Troyes. As such, it is important for its connections to themes of contemporary Latin lyric, in troubadour poetry and in the French romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Thereafter its influence spread throughout Western Europe, so that the treatise is of fundamental importance for students of medieval and renaissance English, French, Italian and Spanish. In this comprehensive edition, P.G. Walsh includes Trojel's Latin text with his own facing English translation with explanatory notes, commentary and indexes, along with introduction which sets the treatise in its contemporary context and assesses its purpose and importance.
The Allegory of Love
Author: C. S. LewisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107659434
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
A classic study of the allegorical power of love in literature, traced through the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Courtly Contradictions
Author: Sarah KayPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804730792
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Where does courtly literature come from? What is the meaning of courtly love? What is the relation between religious and secular culture in the Middle Ages, and why does it matter? This book addresses these questions by way of contradiction, which is central both to medieval logic and to most modern protocols of reading.
The Meaning of Courtly Love
Author: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. Annual Conference (Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courtly love
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Meaning of Courtly Love, Edited by F.X. Newman
Author: F.X. NewmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courtly love
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality
Author: James A. SchultzPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226740897
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
One of the great achievements of the Middle Ages, Europe’s courtly culture gave the world the tournament, the festival, the knighting ceremony, and also courtly love. But courtly love has strangely been ignored by historians of sexuality. With Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality, James Schultz corrects this oversight with careful analysis of key courtly texts of the medieval German literary tradition. Courtly love, Schultz finds, was provoked not by the biological and intrinsic factors that play such a large role in our contemporary thinking about sexuality—sex difference or desire—but by extrinsic signs of class: bodies that were visibly noble and behaviors that represented exemplary courtliness. Individuals became “subjects” of courtly love only to the extent that their love took the shape of certain courtly roles such as singer, lady, or knight. They hoped not only for physical union but also for the social distinction that comes from realizing these roles to perfection. To an extraordinary extent, courtly love represented the love of courtliness—the eroticization of noble status and the courtly culture that celebrated noble power and refinement
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)
Author: Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393334155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).