Much troubadour poetry is on the topic of love, and is composed from a first-person position. This book is a full-length study of this first-person subject position in its relation to language and society.
Composed at the height of the Hundred Years War by Geoffroi de Charny, one of the most respected knights of his age, A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry is an invaluable guide to fourteenth-century knighthood.
This volume establishes the cultural context in which Charny lived in the first section and sets forth in the second the French text of Charny's fascinating work alongside an English translation, with full critical apparatus.
The author analyzes the utilitarian point of view of Anglo-Norman writers as seen through those of their works that have survived. This attitude helps explain the standards of conduct expected of the nobility of that period.
Der lateinische Traktat De amore aus dem späten 12. Jahrhundert von einem nicht sicher zu identifizierenden Kleriker namens Andreas gehört zu den faszinierendsten und umstrittensten Texten des Mittelalters.
This record includes text of a fascinating exchange of poems between Chaucer's early contemporaries, Philippe de Vitry and Jean de la Mote, the text of Granson's Cinq Balades Ensievans in the closest version extant to Chaucer's Complaint of ...
Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics.
In graphic novel format, presents the play by William Shakespeare in which Rosalind, banished to the Forest of Arden and disguised as a boy, reunites with her true love Orlando.
Illustrations drawn from medieval manuscripts provide insight into courtly love, the stylised and idealistic relationship between a chivalrous knight and his lady.
Vor dem Hintergrund der gelehrten Diskussion über das Erotische und die Sexualität im Mittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit analysiert Walter Haug die Neuerungen des zeitgenössischen höfisch-literarischen Diskurses.