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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Courtly love in literature.
French poetry -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.