Medieval Love Letters: A Critical Anthology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009398107)

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.

Author: Myra Stokes, Ad Putter
ISBN-10: 1009398105
ISBN-13: 9781009398107
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2024
Pages: 600
Format: Hardcover