The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107659438)

The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century. Lewis devotes particular attention to the major poems The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to poets including Chaucer, Gower and Thomas Usk.

Author: C. S. Lewis
ISBN-10: 1107659434
ISBN-13: 9781107659438
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/07/2013
Pages: 488
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d