The Art of Courtly Love
Contributors: Jan Ziolkowski (Foreword)
Edition: revised edition edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: September 2, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780231136570
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Medieval Literature - History And Criticism; Literary Criticism; Love / Sex / Marriage; 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.