[PDF] The Origin And Meaning Of Courtly Love eBook

Author : Andreas (Capellanus.)
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780231073059

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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 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."

Author : Sarah Kay
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804730792

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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.

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107659434

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A classic study of the allegorical power of love in literature, traced through the medieval and Renaissance periods.

Author : James A. Schultz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226740897

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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

Author : Guillaume de Lorris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691257779

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Many English-speaking readers of the Roman de la rose, the famous dream allegory of the thirteenth century, have come to rely on Charles Dahlberg's elegant and precise translation of the Old French text. His line-by-line rendering in contemporary English is available again, this time in a third edition with an updated critical apparatus. Readers at all levels can continue to deepen their understanding of this rich tale about the Lover and his quest--against the admonishments of Reason and the obstacles set by Jealousy and Resistance--to pluck the fair Rose in the Enchanted Garden. The original introduction by Dahlberg remains an excellent overview of the work, covering such topics as the iconographic significance of the imagery and the use of irony in developing the central theme of love. His new preface reviews selected scholarship through 1990, which examines, for example, the sources and influences of the work, the two authors, the nature of the allegorical narrative as a genre, the use of first person, and the poem's early reception. The new bibliographic material incorporates that of the earlier editions. The sixty-four miniature illustrations from thirteenth-and fifteenth-century manuscripts are retained, as are the notes keyed to the Langlois edition, on which the translation is based.