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Violent Passions Bonnie Wheeler

Violent Passions By Bonnie Wheeler

Violent Passions by Bonnie Wheeler

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This book re-evaluates the perception of courtly love in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn.

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Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance by Bonnie Wheeler

This book re-evaluates the perception of courtly love in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn.

Violent Passions Reviews

[Adam's] attempt to locate these romantic explorations of amor within the 12th-century's fascination with problematic love is laudable and instructive. - Encomia

About Bonnie Wheeler

Bonnie Wheeler teaches at Southern Methodist University, USA where she directs the Medieval Studies Program. She has edited and co-edited fourteen books, among them Listening to Heloise and Heloise and the Paraclete (forthcoming). She was founding editor of the journal Arthuriana and is series editor for two Palgrave Macmillan book series, The New Middle Ages and Arthurian and Courtly Cultures.

Table of Contents

Introduction * The Problem of Love * The Mad Lovers of the Ovidian Lais * Marriage and Amor * The Roman d'Eneas and the Erotics of Empire Building * Making Love in Beroul and Thomas's Tristan * The Magister Amoris and his Willful Lovers: Cliges and the Chevalier de la Charrete * Conclusion * Bibliography

Additional information

NLS9781349527199
9781349527199
134952719X
Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance by Bonnie Wheeler
Bonnie Wheeler
Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2005-09-03
323
N/A
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