The Art of Courtly Love
Contributors: Jan Ziolkowski (Foreword)
Edition: revised edition edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: April 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780231136563
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History; Love / Sex / Marriage; History: World; Europe; Love & Romance; Medieval; History / Medieval
First sentence: Love is certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things the embraces of the other and by common desire to carry out all of love's precepts in the other's embrace.