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Author: Pamela J. Porter
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780802085993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrations drawn from medieval manuscripts provide insight into courtly love, the stylised and idealistic relationship between a chivalrous knight and his lady.
Author: Andreas (Capellanus.)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780231073059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Bernard O'Donoghue
Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roberta L. Krueger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-06-22
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780521556873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy, and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The volume introduces a rich array of traditions and texts and offers fresh perspectives on the manuscript context of romance, the relationship of romance to other genres, popular romance in urban contexts, romance as mirror of familiar and social tensions, and the representation of courtly love, chivalry, 'other' worlds and gender roles. Together the essays demonstrate that European romances not only helped to promulgate the ideals of elite societies in formation, but also held those values up for questioning. An introduction, a chronology and a bibliography of texts and translations complete this lively, useful overview.
Author: Julia Boffey
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Incorporated
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780859911795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJulia Boffey investigates the original context of over six hundred 15th- and early 16th-century English courtly lyrics.
Author: Andrea Hopkins
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780062511294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated tribute to the enduring ideas about love and an eloquent exploration of their origins in the courts of twelth-century France.
Author: Andreas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James A. Schultz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006-08-15
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0226740897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne 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: Paul Zumthor
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780816618453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA translation of the 1972 French analysis of the dynamics of textual production in the Middle Ages that marked a major shift in scholarly discourse about medieval literature. Integrating the tools of linguistics and textual criticism, does not come to conclusions, but proposes approaches and methods for investigation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: John Cherry
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780892368396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis selection of extracts and inscriptions from medieval poems and songs, romances and chansons, rings and brooches is illustrated with images drawn from a wide range of beautiful objects and illuminated manuscripts in the rich collections of the British Museum and the British Library.
