The art of love : amatory fiction from Ovid to the Romance of the Rose /
Two major French medieval literary works that claim to teach their readers the art of love are virtually torn apart by the contradictions and conflicts they contain. In Andreas Capellanus's late twelfth-century Latin De amore, the author instructs his friend Walter in the amatory art in the fir...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1992.
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| Series: | Middle Ages series.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv4v3029 |
Table of Contents:
- The illusion of love, the love of illusion: the Ars amatoria and Remedia amoris
- From Rome to France: under the sign of Ovid
- The diligent reader and the twofold text: Andreas Capellanus and the rhetoric of love
- Through the looking glass: Jean de Meun's Mirror for lovers
- Appendix. Medieval reception and transmission of Ovid's amatory works: an overview.