Ennobling Love In Search of a Lost Sensibility

Name: Ennobling Love In Search of a Lost Sensibility
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ISBN: 9780812216912

ISBN-10: 0812216911

ISBN-13: 9780812216912

Edition: 1999

Authors: C. Stephen Jaeger, Ruth Mazo Karras

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"Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, son of the King of England, remained with Philip, the King of France, who so honored him for so long that they ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them. And the King of France loved him as his own soul; and they loved each other so much that the King of England was absolutely astonished at the vehement love between them and marveled at what it could mean." Public avowals of love between men were common from antiquity through the Middle Ages. What do these expressions leave to interpretation? An extraordinary amount, as Stephen Jaeger demonstrates. Unlike current efforts to read medieval culture…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 7/18/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

C. Stephen Jaeger is Professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210, and The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200, all available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.



Preface


Introduction: Cordelia on Trial



Charismatic Love and Friendship



Problems of Reading the Language of Passionate Friendship



Virtue and Ennobling Love (1): Antiquity and Early Christianity



Love of King and Court



Love, Friendship, and Virtue in Pre-Courtly Literature



Love in Education, Education in Love



Women



Sublime Love



Sublime Love



Love Beyond the Body



Sleeping and Eating Together



Eros Denied, Eros Defied



Virtue and Ennobling Love (2): Value, Worth, Reputation



Unsolvable Problems -- Romantic Solutions: The Romantic Dilemma



The Epistolae duorum amantium, Heloise, and Her Orbit



The Loves of Christina of Markyate



Virtuous Chastity, Virtuous Passion -- Romantic Solutions in Two Courtly Epics



The Grand Amatory Mode of the Noble Life



English Translations of Selected Texts


Alcuin, one letter and three poems


Hildesheim Letter, Epist. 36, a master to his student


Letter of R. of Mainz to the students of the Worms cathedral school


Baudri of Bourgueil, poem to a haughty boy


Marbod of Rennes, "On the Good Woman," from the Book of Ten Chapters


From the Regensburg Love Songs (No. 28)


From the "Letters of Two Lovers" (Epistolae duorum amantium)


"Metamorphosis Goliae"


Notes


Abbreviations


Bibliography


Index