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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953326803321

Autore

Monson Don Alfred

Titolo

Andreas Capellanus, scholasticism, & the courtly tradition / / Don A. Monson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8132-1631-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Disciplina

306.7

Soggetti

Love

Courtly love

Courtly love in literature

Scholasticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-366) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Problems of form : Andreas and the scholastic method -- The problem of genre : description versus prescription -- Love and the arts : rhetoric versus dialectic -- The intertextuality of love : authorities and models -- The problem of irony : Andreas and the critics -- Problems of meaning : Andreas and the courtly themes -- Love and the ontological order : Andreas' scholastic definition -- Love and the natural order : psychology and physiology -- Love and the social order : courtly values and feudal society -- Love and the moral order : courtly values and Christian ethics -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book, the first study in English devoted entirely to Andreas Capellanus's De Amore, presents a comprehensive inquiry into the influence of scholasticism on the structure and organization of the work, applying methods of medieval philosophy and intellectual history to an important problem in medieval literary studies.