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Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)

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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.

Author(s): Tracy Adams
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2005

Language: English
Pages: 324

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1 The Problem of Love......Page 24
2 The Mad Lovers of the Ovidian Lais......Page 50
3 Marriage and Amor......Page 88
4 The Roman d’Eneas and the Erotics of Empire Building......Page 120
5 “Making Love” in Béroul and Thomas’s Tristans......Page 158
6 The Magister Amoris and his Willful Lovers: Cligés and the Chevalier de la Charrete......Page 200
Conclusion......Page 250
Notes......Page 258
Bibliography......Page 300
C......Page 320
G......Page 321
M......Page 322
S......Page 323
Z......Page 324