The Allegory Of Love: A Study In Medieval Tradition

by C. S. Lewis

2021-06-03 07:32:48

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 flow... Read more
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 century. Lewis devotes particular attention to the major poems The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to poets including Chaucer, Gower and Thomas Usk. Less

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Publication date November 5, 2013
Languageeng
ISBN9781107659438
Author
Clive Staples Lewis (29 Nov 1898 – 22 Nov 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University. He wrote...

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