The allegory of love
Subtitle: a study in medieval tradition
By: by C. S. Lewis.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1948
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Courtly love in literature; Allegory; Literature, Comparative -- Themes, motives; English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- To 1500
Description: Book Description: Love is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and is still generally regarded as able and enabling passion. Love has not always taken such precedence, however, and it was in fact not until the eleventh century that French poets first began to express the romantic species of passion which English poets were still writing about in the nineteenth century. This book is intended for students of medieval literature from A-level upwards. Anyone interested in the `Courtly Love' tradition.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.