Module 4 - Part 3: Texts and Contexts

Other parts of this module include:
Index  |  Part 1: Overview  |  Part 2: Explorations and Exercises  |  Part 4: Web Resources

Variations on the Theme of Romantic Love in the Middle Ages

Primary sources

Selections from Andreas Cappellanus, The Art of Love.
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Marie de France, Chevrefoil, translated by Judith Shoaf, with the translator's notes.
– Link 2

Charles D'Orleans, "To His Mistress, To Succour His Heart that is Beleaguered by Jealousy."
– Link 3

The first two "joys" from "The Fifteen Joys of Marriage," an anti-feminist treatise of the sort that influenced Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue.
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Secondary sources

A scholarly article by Colleen P. Donagher, "Socializing the Sorceress: The Fairy Mistress in Lanval, Le Bel Inconnu, and Partonopeu de Blois," published in Essays In Medieval Studies, volume 4.
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An excellent essay by Royall Tyler, the most recent translator of Murasaki's novel into English: "Marriage, Rank and Rape in The Tale of Genji," published in Intersections, a refereed electronic journal devoted to Asian Studies published by Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia.
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