Medieval love letters: a critical anthology

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-wr...

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Main Authors: Stokes, Myra (Author), Putter, Ad 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2025
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary: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
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Nov 2024)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 491 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009398091
DOI:10.1017/9781009398091

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