The allegory of love
a study in medieval tradition
About this book
Book Description: Love is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and is still generally regarded as able and enabling passion. Love has not always taken such precedence, however, and it was in fact not until the eleventh century that French poets first began to express the romantic species of passion which English poets were still writing about in the nineteenth century. This book is intended for students of medieval literature from A-level upwards. Anyone interested in the `Courtly Love' tradition.
Subjects
- allegory
- amour courtois
- comparative literature
- comparative literature, themes, motives
- courtly love
- courtly love in literature
- english poetry
- english poetry, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500
- histoire et critique
- history
- history and criticism
- influence (literary, artistic, etc.)
- literatura inglesa (historia e critica)
- literature, medieval, history and criticism
- literature, modern, history and criticism, 15th and 16th centuries
- littérature comparée
- littérature médiévale
- love
- medieval literature
- middle english
- modern literature
- poésie anglaise
- poésie d'amour anglaise
- poetry
- poetry as topic
- thèmes, motifs
- themes, motives