1st Edition
Marriage Fictions in Old French Secular Narratives, 1170-1250 A Critical Re-evaluation of the Courtly Love Debate
By Keith Nickolaus
Copyright 2002
255 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
255 Pages
by
Routledge
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Nickolaus provides the readers with a concise critical discussion of the "courtly love" debate, broad historical and comparative analysis, and a model that explains, at the level of plot, rhetoric, and ideology, the proper place of amorous motifs in the context of prevailing Christian doctrines and attitudes.
Preface Introduction 1. Marriage Fictions and the Meaning of Courtly Love 2. Love, Marriage, and Mythology: Marriage Fictions and Epic History 3. Twelfth-Century Marriage Reforms and the Representation of Marriage 4. Courtly Narratives, Christian Sacrament: Consent Doctrine and Social ideology in the Old French Roman Conclusion: Western Tradition in the Old French Roman Bibliography
Biography
Keith Nickolaus
