Medieval Love Letters : A Critical Anthology

Stokes, Myra/ Putter, Ad

Cambridge University Press（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 502 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009398107
• DDC分類 809.693543

Full Description

In the Middle Ages, educated people communicated their love in verse letters that revealed at once their personal commitments and their commitments to an established form of literary art. Medieval Love Letters reveals the fascinating duality of the medieval love letter as literary art and as life-writing by exploring a wide variety of remarkable texts in English, French, German and Latin. These rich texts are made accessible both linguistically, in new editions and translations, and conceptually, by discussing them in a way intelligible to non-specialists. Edited and translated texts include model letters from instructional manuals and fictional verse and actual letters from clerics and lay people, men and women. A substantial introduction explores the interchange and overlap between fact and literary art with reference to wide range of examples.

Contents

Part I. Introduction: The Art of the Love Letter: 1. Art and Actuality: an Overview; 2. Occasions; Ways and Means; Male and Female Voices; 3. Clerics and Convents; Part II. Fictional and Instructional Models; Text 1. Boncompagno da Signa: Rota Veneris; Text 2. London, British Library, Harley MS 3988; Text 3. The Parliament of Love; Part III. Actual Letters (Drafts, Copies, Missives); Text 4. the Norfolk Letters: the Abbot to the Nun; Text 5. Oxford, Corpus Christi, MS 154; Text 6. the Armburgh Love-Letters; Text 7. Pierre de Hagenbach and the Canoness at Remiremont - The Council of Remiremont - Conrad Pfettisheim's Account of Pierre de Hagenbach.