ABSTRACT
Nickolaus provides the readers with a concise critical discussion of the "courtly love" debate, broad historical and comparative analysis, and a model that explains, at the level of plot, rhetoric, and ideology, the proper place of amorous motifs in the context of prevailing Christian doctrines and attitudes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter One|48 pages
Marriage Fictions and the Meaning of “Courtly Love”
chapter Chapter Three|48 pages
Twelfth-Century Marriage Reforms and the Representation of Marriage
chapter Chapter Four|70 pages
Courtly Narratives, Christian Sacrament
Consent Doctrine and Social Ideology in the Old French Roman
