French royal courts in the late twelfth century were absolutely smitten with love. Troubadaours traveled from place to place reciting stories of knights and the ladies they wooed.
Women In The Medieval And Renaissance Period: Spectators Only
November 24, 2013 By
The particular concern in this paper is the involvement of women in sport during the Middle Ages and Renaissance period and, indeed, the analysis will examine this involvement as to woman’s role as spectator or participant.
The True Characters of Criseyde and of Diomede in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde: A Restoration of the Reputations of Two Misunderstood Characters Unjustly Maligned in Literary Criticism
September 8, 2012 By
This is a defence of the characters of Criseyde and of Diomede based, inter alia, on a close textual analysis.
The science of love in the Middle Ages, the romantic period, and our own time
January 10, 2012 By
I begin with a number of fascinating and difficult questions. Why did man originally create, and why does he continue to create, works on the “science of love”?
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