Three Chapters on Courtly Love in Arthurian France and Germany
Subtitle: Lancelot—Andreas Capellanus—Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Parzival"
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1956
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781469658629
Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
Description: By analyzing Chrétien's "Cligès", Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's "Lanzelet", Chrétien's "Chevalier de la Charette", and the Old French "Prose Lancelot", as well as Andreas Capellanus' "De Amore" and Eschenbach's "Parzival", Weigand presents a picture of the ideals of courtly love in Europe in the latter half of the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth centuries. A long chapter on "Parzival" focuses especially on the introduction of Christian themes and changing ideas of the compatibility of love and marriage.
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