The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition. Love is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and is still generally regarded as anble and ennbling passion. Love has not always taken such precedence, however, and it was in fact not until the eleventh century that French poets first began to express the romantic species of passion which English peots were still writing about in the nineteenth . S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century. The Allegory of Love is a study in medieval tradition—the rise of both the sentiment called “courtly love” and of the allegorical method—from eleventh–century Languedoc through sixteenth–century England. C.S. Lewis devotes considerable attention to The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to such poets as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and Thomas Usk.
"The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition" is the book which made C.S. Lewis' reputation as a critic of medieval and renaissance literature, in advance of his later fame as a Christian apologist, a fantasy writer, or a poet; his earliest works in these fields having been published under pseudonyms. In The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition was published. In this scholarly work C. S. Lewis explores courtly love in the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Lewis examines courtly love in the songs of the Provençal troubadours and its later development in the works of Chrétien de Troyes' based upon the legend of King Arthur. The allegory of love: a study in medieval tradition. , The Clarendon Press. in English. aaaa. Checked Out. Download for print-disabled. Libraries near you: WorldCat. The allegory of love: a study in medieval tradition.
The allegory of love is a study in medieval tradition—the rise of both the sentiment called ''courtly love'' and of the allegorical method—from eleventh-century. The fault in our stars study guide contains a biography of john green, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C.S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth centuty. Shelves: allegory. C.S. Lewis has a way of drawing you in. Of course, this book is intended for academic interest in allegories in the medieval period, of which I am one of them. Allegory of Love is a literary criticism book, but it also offers a good overview of allegory and the medieval era.
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