Medieval Love-Fashioning: Configurations of FinAmor in European Literature, 110 [Hardcover]

Preface Introduction: Loving God and Ones Neighbour?PART I?1. 12th Century: The Great Age of Love 2. Monasterial Pastimes: Baudri and Constance 3. The First Troubadour: The Count of Poitou 4. The Exegete as a Lover: Bernard of Clairvaux 5. No Regrets: H?lo?se 6. Vertigo: Bernart de Ventadorn 7. Desire Restrained: Chr?tien 8. Both Yes and No: Andrew the Chaplain 9. Passion and Parody: Marie de France 10. Without Further Ado: The Song of the Rake 11. The Cleric on the Warpath: Alan of Lille 12. The Condemned: Tristan and Isolde PART II?13. 13th Century: Bliss/Sin 14. Where Love Meets Love: Wolfram 15. Deconstruction: Cavalcanti 16. From Florence to Paradise: Dante 17. Plucking the Rose: From Guillaume to Jean PART III?18. 14th and 15th Centuries: Godforsaken Passions 19. Into a Luminous Abyss: Petrarch 20. The Angels Lost Wings: Boccaccio 21. The Mad Love of the World: Archpriest Juan Ruiz 22. Love and Love Not... Chaucer 23. Up for Debate: Christine de Pizan 24. Loves Wasteland: Malory Conclusion Appendix: Quotations in Their Original Languages Bibliography Index of Names

Medieval Love-Fashioning examines the topic of finamor, gentle love, in poetry, verse romances, and prose from the European High and Late Middle Ages.

Medieval Love-Fashioning examines the topic of finamor, gentle love, in poetry, verse romances, and prose from the European High and Late Middle Ages.

It shows how finamor was established in twelfth-century troubadour poetry, then modified, parodied, and critiqued through four centuries of imaginative literature. This approach aims to do justice to the diversity of literary representations and interpretations of love in the Middle Ages, while at the same time maintaining a strict focus on finamor (rather l³+