Courtly Love Undressed
Subtitle: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (Middle Ages)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: August 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780812219302
Subjects: History of art: BCE to c 500 CE, ancient & classical world; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; European - French; Literary Criticism & Collections / French; Costume in literature; Courtly love in literature; French literature; History and criticism; To 1500
First sentence: Jean de Meun's thirteenth-century version of the Roman de la Rose opens with a standard clerical condemnation of courtly love as a kind of incurable torment that enflames the hearts of fools and makes them suffer unrequited desire.