Allen, Peter L.
The Art of Love

Amatory Fiction from Ovid to the 'Romance of the Rose'.

Allen argues that the 'De amore' and the 'Romance of the Rose' are central to the courtly tradition. Allen contends that their conflicts and contradictions are not signs of confusion or artistic failure, but are instead essential clues which show that the medieval works follow the disruptive structural model of Ovid's first century elegiac Ars amatoria (Art of Love) and Remedia amoris (Cures for Love). Andreas's and Jean's works, no less than Ovid's, teach not the art of love for practicing lovers, but the literary art of love poetry and fiction. XI,178 Seiten, gebunden (Middle Ages Series/University of Pennsylvania Press 1992) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed