Medieval Ballads: Chivalry, Romance, and Everyday Life:
Despite their status as the major literature of the medieval commoner, the ballads of the Middle Ages have remained generally inaccessible. The present collection provides for the first time a comprehensive selection of these important poems in modern translation, organized according to theme and accorded brief synopses of their sources, motifs, interpretive problems, and cross-references. Moreover, Prof. Morgan's critical introduction establishes a social and historical context for the ballads of chivalry and romance and a general framework for their reading.
Medieval Ballads: Chivalry, Romance, and Everyday Life: A Critical Anthology
Medieval Marriage: Two Models from Twelfth-Century France
Vol. 11. Eminent French social historian Georges Duby identifies the twelfth century as a crucial turning point in the development of the institution of marriage in Western civilization. His study of medieval marriage is a worthy successor to the exploration of social attitudes begun by Philippe Aries.
Catullus, Tibullus, and Pervigilium Veneris (Loeb Classical Library):
Includes "The Pervigilium Veneris", a poem of not quite a hundred lines celebrating a spring festival in honor of the goddess of love, is remarkable for its romanticism which transformed classical into medieval literature. Many classical works influenced medieval thought and life, although pagan ideas had to be modified to fit into a Christian society.
Catullus, Tibullus, and Pervigilium Veneris (Loeb Classical Library)
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings:
The strong-willed woman who married two kings and gave birth to two others. This account of Queen Eleanor and her century is offered as a study of individuals who set their stamp upon the events of their time, rather than as a study of developing systems of politics, economics, or jurisprudence.
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
Noble Lovers:
A new copy is not available at this time. There are 28 used copies of this title available.
Noble Lovers
Tristan: by Gottfried Von Strassburg:
Written in the thirteenth century, Gottfried's version of this legendary romance - in which Tristan and Isolde chance to drink a magic potion that causes them to fall in love - portrays Tristan in the round as an attractive and sophisticated pre-Renaissance man. While Gottfried adheres faithfully to the events as set down by Thomas, his chosen source, he is correct over questions of Chrisianity and religion, but no more. In fact his persona as narrator is oddly elusive and engaging. A virtuoso stylist, adept in irony and wit, he is subtle and almost unmedieval in putting across his own impressions of a love that transcends the bonds advocated by Church or society. A Penguin Classic Paperback, 374pp
Tristan
Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance:
Articles in this collection explore how gender is put into debate in Anglo-Saxon, German, Spanish, and Italian cultures, and they re-examine French and Middle English debate literature. Shows the debates to have been a wider, much older cultural phenomenon than previously thought with varied and intractable roots. Hardcover, 292pp
Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance
This fifth volume in the 'Queens of England Series' is devoted to Eleanor of Aquitaine, who divorced the King of France and married the King of England. Mother of Richard the Lionhearted and King John, she presided over "The Court of Love" and rode bare-breasted on the Crusades. This is historical fiction. In Audio format on 16 Cassettes.
The Courts of Love
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Courts of Love
Paperback, 496pp. No new copies are available at this time in book form, but there are still 21 USED books available.
Aristocratic Women in Medieval France
Spirit of the Court: Selected Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, Toronto 1983
Patterns of Everyday Life:
Covering the seventh through the tenth centuries, these 21 essays examine the cultural patterns and structures which contributed to the emergence of classical Islamic civilization. Focusing on the material foundations of the culture, the essays discuss shelter, textiles and clothing, and food and drink. Hardcover, 400pp
Patterns of Everyday Life
Medieval Imagination: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Courtly Love
In this classic work, Denis De Rougemont explores the psychology of love from the legend of Tristan and Isolde to Hollywood, and "the inescapable conflict in the West between passion and marriage." Discusses the artificial barriers lovers erect to intensify their passion. A detailed examination of the cult of Courtly Love in the Middle Ages adds an interesting historical dimension.
Love in the Western World
Travel through time from the comfort of your living room. Join us as we explore chivalry and courtly love, concepts which continue to influence our lives today. What happened to society that caused the role of women to change from the scorned servant-wife to the exalted lady on a pedestal? Was this change beneficial or harmful to women? Learn about the High Middle Ages and the troubadors whose love songs inspired the French "Courts of Love".
THE MIDDLE AGES
