Medieval Love Poetry

Medieval Love Poetry
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Total Pages : 100
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ISBN-10 : 089236839X
ISBN-13 : 9780892368396
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis Medieval Love Poetry by : John Cherry

This 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.

The Arrow of Love

The Arrow of Love
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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 0838754805
ISBN-13 : 9780838754801
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Arrow of Love by : Dana E. Stewart

In particular, optical imagery and paradigms afforded poets a new approach to the roles of the languishing male and his powerful beloved."--Jacket.

Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry

Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781139495257
ISBN-13 : 1139495259
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry by : Jessica Rosenfeld

Jessica Rosenfeld provides a history of the ethics of medieval vernacular love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late medieval reception of Aristotle. Beginning with a history of the idea of enjoyment from Plato to Peter Abelard and the troubadours, the book then presents a literary and philosophical history of the medieval ethics of love, centered on the legacy of the Roman de la Rose. The chapters reveal that 'courtly love' was scarcely confined to what is often characterized as an ethic of sacrifice and deferral, but also engaged with Aristotelian ideas about pleasure and earthly happiness. Readings of Machaut, Froissart, Chaucer, Dante, Deguileville and Langland show that poets were often markedly aware of the overlapping ethical languages of philosophy and erotic poetry. The study's conclusion places medieval poetry and philosophy in the context of psychoanalytic ethics, and argues for a re-evaluation of Lacan's ideas about courtly love.

An Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry

An Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 397
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ISBN-10 : 0813029074
ISBN-13 : 9780813029078
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis An Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry by : Barbara K. Altmann

This very first anthology of medieval love debate poems--comprising five masterpieces of the genre--explores the many compelling mysteries raised by the experience of romantic love. Some have been translated into modern English for the first time. With wit, ingenuity, and humor, these poems suggest intriguing answers to what contemporary inquirers would call questions of gender and sexual politics: Who loves better, men or women? Are men or women more faithful in love? Are women obligated to reciprocate the attentions of an ardent male? What qualities in a lover do women most desire? The contributors provide a foundation for the love debate genre and medieval literary treatments of love, as well as pertinent facts of literary history and biographical details about the poets, whose work spans more than 100 years. The volume features works that have been recognized for centuries as central texts of the medieval tradition: Christine de Pizan's Debate of the Two Lovers, Alain Chartier's Debate of the Four Ladies,Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women, and Guillaume de Machaut's Judgment of the King of Bohemia and Judgment of the King of Navarre. Each translation is appropriately annotated for student use.

The Art of Courtly Love

The Art of Courtly Love
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 0231073054
ISBN-13 : 9780231073059
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Art of Courtly Love by : Andreas (Capellanus.)

The 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."

Poetry and Music in Medieval France

Poetry and Music in Medieval France
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 406
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ISBN-10 : 0521622190
ISBN-13 : 9780521622196
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Poetry and Music in Medieval France by : Ardis Butterfield

This book, first published in 2003, examines the relationship between poetry and music in medieval France.

Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry

Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9781843842729
ISBN-13 : 1843842726
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry by : Julie Singer

An examination of the ways in which late medieval lyric poetry can be seen to engage with contemporary medical theory. This book argues that late medieval love poets, from Petrarch to Machaut and Charles d'Orléans, exploit scientific models as a broad framework within which to redefine the limits of the lyric subject and his body. Just as humoraltheory depends upon principles of likes and contraries in order to heal, poetry makes possible a parallel therapeutic system in which verbal oppositions and substitutions counter or rewrite received medical wisdom. The specific case of blindness, a disability that according to the theories of love that predominated in the late medieval West foreclosed the possibility of love, serves as a laboratory in which to explore poets' circumvention of the logical limits of contemporary medical theory. Reclaiming the power of remedy from physicians, these late medieval French and Italian poets prompt us to rethink not only the relationship between scientific and literary authority at the close of the middle ages, but, more broadly speaking, the very notion of therapy. Julie Singer is Assistant Professor of French at Washington University, St Louis.

Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9781139496728
ISBN-13 : 1139496727
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland by : Antony J. Hasler

This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.

Medieval Lyric

Medieval Lyric
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 0252025369
ISBN-13 : 9780252025365
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Medieval Lyric by : William Doremus Paden

"An essential volume for medievalists and scholars of comparative literature, Medieval Lyric opens up a reconsideration of genre in medieval European lyric. Departing from a perspective that asks how medieval genres correspond with twentieth-century ideas of structure or with the evolution of poetry, this collection argues that the development of genres should be considered as a historical phenomenon, embedded in a given culture and responsive to social and literary change.".

Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry

Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry
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Publisher : DS Brewer
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 184384141X
ISBN-13 : 9781843841418
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry by : Conor McCarthy

Seamus Heaney's engagement with medieval literature constitutes a significant body of work by a major poet including a landmark translation of "Beowulf". This title examines both Heaney's direct translations and his adaptation of medieval material in his original poems.