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6 lip 2021 · Courtly love in art, Courtly love in literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval Publisher Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 160.8M
Porter's text opens with a discussion of nineteenth-century English and French constructions of medieval courtly love. She explains the origins of the term, and then describes the Gothic Revival that took place in Victorian England, setting its historical realism in the context of the antiquarianism of the period.
Courtly love, a highly conventionalized code that prescribed the behavior of women of the nobility and their lovers during the later Middle Ages. It was also the theme of an extensive medieval literature.
Moreover, Lewis’s insistence on the adulterous nature of Courtly Love is based on only a small sampling of texts. Plenty of medieval romances depict love between unmarried people or people married to each other. Lancelot and Guenevere, Tristan and Isolde are the exceptions rather than the rule.
COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS, 2003. PP. 64. The. first thing that strikes one about this slim volume is that it is gorgeously illustrated.
James A. Schultz’s elegant, readable and engaging study of courtly love is the highly fruitful result of bringing together the history of sexuality and the study of medieval German courtly literature.
ideas were taken very seriously by medieval authors of courtly love stories and provided much of the basis for these works (Capellanus 4). The concept of love as a constant struggle to be overcome is present throughout courtly romances of the Middle Ages, and has a clear influence in The Lais of Marie de France as well.
