Violent Passions Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance [Hardcover]

This book re-evaluates the perception of courtly love in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn.Introduction * The Problem of Love * The Mad Lovers of the Ovidian Lais * Marriage and Amor * The Roman d'Eneas and the Erotics of Empire Building * Making Love in B?roul and Thomas's Tristan * The Magister Amoris and his Willful Lovers: Clig?s and the Chevalier de la Charrete * Conclusion * Bibliography

[Adam's] attempt to locate these romantic explorations of amor within the 12th-century's fascination with problematic love is laudable and instructive. - Encomia

Bonnie Wheeler teaches at Southern Methodist University, USA where she directs the Medieval Studies Program. She has edited and co-edited fourteen books, among them Listening to Heloise and Heloise and the Paraclete (forthcoming). She was founding editor of the journal Arthuriana and is series editor for two Palgrave Macmillan book series, The New Middle Ages and Arthurian and Courtly Cultures.