Ennobling love : in search of a lost sensibility /
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| Author / Creator: | Jaeger, C. Stephen. |
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999. |
| Description: | xi, 311 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Middle Ages series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3911976 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: Cordelia on Trial
- Part I. Charismatic Love and Friendship
- 1. Problems of Reading the Language of Passionate Friendship
- 2. Virtue and Ennobling Love (1): Antiquity and Early Christianity
- 3. Love of King and Court
- 4. Love, Friendship, and Virtue in Pre-Courtly Literature
- 5. Love in Education, Education in Love
- 6. Women
- Part II. Sublime Love
- 7. Sublime Love
- 8. Love Beyond the Body
- 9. Sleeping and Eating Together
- 10. Eros Denied, Eros Defied
- 11. Virtue and Ennobling Love (2): Value, Worth, Reputation
- Part III. Unsolvable Problems -- Romantic Solutions: The Romantic Dilemma
- 12. The Epistolae duorum amantium, Heloise, and Her Orbit
- 13. The Loves of Christina of Markyate
- 14. Virtuous Chastity, Virtuous Passion -- Romantic Solutions in Two Courtly Epics
- 15. The Grand Amatory Mode of the Noble Life
- Appendix. 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
