Magister Amoris: The Roman de la Rose and Vernacular Hermeneutics
Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: Alastair J. Minnis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-04-26 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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The Roman de la Rose was a major bestseller - largely due to its robust treatment of 'natural' sexuality. This study concentrates on the ways in which Jean de M
The Art of Love
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Roy Gibson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-04 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought
Serious Play
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Robert W. Hanning
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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In this thoughtful, scholarly, often humorous analysis of literary works--including Ovid's amatory poetry, excerpts from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and Ariosto
The Master and Minerva
Language: en
Pages: 315
Authors: Helen Solterer
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer contends, in French medieval culture the representation of wo
Violent Passions
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: T. Adams
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09-03 - Publisher: Springer

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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 cop