Marriage Fictions in Old French Secular Narratives, 1170-1250: A Critical Re-Evaluation of the Courtly Love Debate

ISBN-13: 9780415937221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 282 str.

Keith Nickolaus; K. Nickolaus;Nickolaus Keith

Opis

This work takes a fresh look at the problem of courtly love through that novel body of literature that emerged in the 12th century, obsessed with courtship, adultery and marriage. Nickolaus provides the reader with a concise critical discussion of the courtly love debate through broad historical and comparative analysis. At the level of plot there is a model that explains rhetoric, ideology and the proper place of amorous motifs in the context of prevailing Christian doctrines and attitudes.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Marriage Fictions and the Meaning of “Courtly Love”; Chapter 2 Love, Marriage, and Mythology; Chapter 3 Twelfth-Century Marriage Reforms and the Representation of Marriage; Chapter 4 Courtly Narratives, Christian Sacrament; conclusion Western Tradition and the Old French Roman;

O autorze

Keith Nickolaus