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Medieval Love Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 100
Authors: John Cherry
Categories: French poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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This selection of extracts and inscriptions from medieval poems and songs, romances and chansons, rings and brooches is illustrated with images drawn from a wid
The Arrow of Love
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Dana E. Stewart
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Bucknell University Press

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In particular, optical imagery and paradigms afforded poets a new approach to the roles of the languishing male and his powerful beloved."--Jacket.
Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Jessica Rosenfeld
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Jessica Rosenfeld provides a history of the ethics of medieval vernacular love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late medieval reception of Aristotle. B
An Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 397
Authors: Barbara K. Altmann
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher:

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This very first anthology of medieval love debate poems--comprising five masterpieces of the genre--explores the many compelling mysteries raised by the experie
The Art of Courtly Love
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Andreas (Capellanus.)
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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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