The Allegory Of Love: A Study In Medieval Tradition
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: - contains pencil markings
Few works of literary scholarship have proven as enduring and revelatory as C. S. Lewis's The Allegory of Love, a magisterial study that uncovers the origins and evolution of allegorical poetry and the courtly love tradition in medieval European literature. With meticulous erudition, Lewis chronicles the rise of a distinctly new way of feeling and writing about love — one born in the poetry of the troubadours and perfected in the great allegorical romances of the Middle Ages — tracing its influence from the Roman de la Rose through to Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Lewis argues with characteristic clarity and wit that the allegorical mode was not merely a stylistic convention but a profound psychological and cultural phenomenon that shaped the Western understanding of romantic love itself. His prose is at once rigorous and luminous, balancing the authority of a trained Oxford scholar with the passion of a man deeply in love with the texts he studies. A landmark of twentieth-century literary criticism, The Allegory of Love remains essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how the medieval imagination forged the very language of love we still speak today — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of our own hearts were written in the Middle Ages.
Author: C. S. Lewis
Format: Hardback
Published: 1951, Oxford University Press / Geoffrey Cumberlege
Genre: Literary theory
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: - contains pencil markings
Few works of literary scholarship have proven as enduring and revelatory as C. S. Lewis's The Allegory of Love, a magisterial study that uncovers the origins and evolution of allegorical poetry and the courtly love tradition in medieval European literature. With meticulous erudition, Lewis chronicles the rise of a distinctly new way of feeling and writing about love — one born in the poetry of the troubadours and perfected in the great allegorical romances of the Middle Ages — tracing its influence from the Roman de la Rose through to Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Lewis argues with characteristic clarity and wit that the allegorical mode was not merely a stylistic convention but a profound psychological and cultural phenomenon that shaped the Western understanding of romantic love itself. His prose is at once rigorous and luminous, balancing the authority of a trained Oxford scholar with the passion of a man deeply in love with the texts he studies. A landmark of twentieth-century literary criticism, The Allegory of Love remains essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how the medieval imagination forged the very language of love we still speak today — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of our own hearts were written in the Middle Ages.