Medievalists.net » Andreas Capellanus http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Caught in Love’s Grip: Passion and Moral Agency in French Courtly Romance http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/caught-loves-grip-passion-moral-agency-french-courtly-romance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/caught-loves-grip-passion-moral-agency-french-courtly-romance/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:06:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51801 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/caught-loves-grip-passion-moral-agency-french-courtly-romance/feed/ 0 Women In The Medieval And Renaissance Period: Spectators Only http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/women-in-the-medieval-and-renaissance-period-spectators-only/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/women-in-the-medieval-and-renaissance-period-spectators-only/#comments Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:13:18 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45211 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/women-in-the-medieval-and-renaissance-period-spectators-only/feed/ 0 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 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/08/the-true-characters-of-criseyde-and-of-diomede-in-chaucers-troilus-and-criseyde-a-restoration-of-the-reputations-of-two-misunderstood-characters-unjustly-maligned-in-literary-criticism/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/08/the-true-characters-of-criseyde-and-of-diomede-in-chaucers-troilus-and-criseyde-a-restoration-of-the-reputations-of-two-misunderstood-characters-unjustly-maligned-in-literary-criticism/#comments Sun, 09 Sep 2012 04:54:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35516 This is a defence of the characters of Criseyde and of Diomede based, inter alia, on a close textual analysis.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/08/the-true-characters-of-criseyde-and-of-diomede-in-chaucers-troilus-and-criseyde-a-restoration-of-the-reputations-of-two-misunderstood-characters-unjustly-maligned-in-literary-criticism/feed/ 0 The science of love in the Middle Ages, the romantic period, and our own time http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/10/the-science-of-love-in-the-middle-ages-the-romantic-period-and-our-own-time/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/10/the-science-of-love-in-the-middle-ages-the-romantic-period-and-our-own-time/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:54:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28476 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/10/the-science-of-love-in-the-middle-ages-the-romantic-period-and-our-own-time/feed/ 0 Clerics and Courtly Love in Andreas Capellanus’ The Art of Courtly Love and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/13/clerics-and-courtly-love-in-andreas-capellanus-the-art-of-courtly-love-and-chaucers-canterbury-tales/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/13/clerics-and-courtly-love-in-andreas-capellanus-the-art-of-courtly-love-and-chaucers-canterbury-tales/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:39:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=18308 In both The Canterbury Tales and The Art of Courtly Love Geoffrey Chaucer and Andreas Capellanus deal with various aspects of courtly love. In particular, both of them focus to some degree on the question of clerical celibacy.

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