Medieval Love Letters
A Critical Anthology
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 November 2024
- ISBN 9781009398107
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages502 pages
- Size 235x159x34 mm
- Weight 870 g
- Language English 717
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Short description:
A carefully chosen selection of medieval love letters, with lucid translations, that explores the interactions between art and actuality.
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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.
'This wide-ranging anthology of love-letters covers both the theory and the practice of love in the medieval period. It includes manuals of instruction on how to write a love-letter and how to seduce a woman, accompanied by model examples, alongside love-lyrics in letter-form and romantic exchanges between real-life lovers, giving fascinating glimpses of the way that life and literature inflected each other. Heartbreak, longing, emotional ecstasy, clandestine meetings, jealousy, the threat of scandal, unwanted pregnancy, all make an appearance. Translation, an extensive introduction, and ample annotation make the texts easily accessible to present-day readers.' Jill Mann, University of Notre Dame
Table of 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.
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