This book re-evaluates the perception of ‘courtly love’ in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn.
Daftar Isi
Introduction * The Problem of Love * The Mad Lovers of the Ovidian Lais * Marriage and Amor * The Roman d’Eneas and the Erotics of Empire Building * ‘Making Love’ in Béroul and Thomas’s Tristan * The Magister Amoris and his Willful Lovers: Cligés and the Chevalier de la Charrete * Conclusion * Bibliography
Tentang Penulis
Bonnie Wheeler teaches at Southern Methodist University, USA where she directs the Medieval Studies Program. She has edited and co-edited fourteen books, among them Listening to Heloise and Heloise and the Paraclete (forthcoming). She was founding editor of the journal Arthuriana and is series editor for two Palgrave Macmillan book series, The New Middle Ages and Arthurian and Courtly Cultures.
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