Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility (The Middle Ages Series)
"Scholars of the Middle Ages can hardly afford not to pay serious attention to Jaeger's clear, cogent arguments that cut across genders, genres, and all orders of the aristocracy. . . . An excellent choice as a required 'practical theory' text for advanced undergraduates and graduate courses."—Speculum"A cogent and engrossing social history of the evolving Medieval attitudes toward civic and erotic love, virtue, and spiritual friendship. . . . The Author . . . has shrewdly plotted a story in which we can almost hear our own age about to be born, where noble love loses its innocent identity. . . .Ennobling Loveis both a reader's pleasure and a scholar's treasure."—Forewordmagazine"This is a book of vast scope, challenging comparison with Auerbach'sMimesisand Curtius'sEuropean Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. . . . All medievalists and students of European (love) literature in general will want to profit from this tour de force."—John O. Ward, Arthuriana