The Allegory of Love by C S Lewis

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Summary

This study in medieval tradition traces the rise of the sentiment called 'Courtly Love' and of the allegorical method through which this sentiment was often expressed. C. S. Lewis begins in eleventh-century Languedoc and focuses his discussion upon The Romance of the Rose, The Faerie Queene and poets such as Chaucer, Gower, and Thomas Usk.

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The Allegory of Love by C S Lewis

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.
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ISBN 13 9780192812209
ISBN 10 0192812203
Title The Allegory of Love
Author C S Lewis
Series Oxford Paperbacks
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1977-11-01
Number of pages 384
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