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Jan 02, 2025
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ENGL 184A - The Courtly Love TraditionSemester Hours: 3
This is the most important cultural development in Western Europe between the end of the classical era and the Renaissance. Suddenly, in the South of France, in about 1090, men began to celebrate and idealize women; this had never happened before, and it would continue through various stages of high seriousness, mysterious inversion, satire and parody until the early 1600s, when we find its last permutations in Cervantes and Shakespeare. We shall trace its origins from classical Arab love poetry in southern Spain, through the troubadours, the writers of romance, the short tales of Marie de France and Boccaccio, Dante’s lyrics and epic, Chaucer, “Gawain,” and other equally strange and intriguing texts. We shall also consider the parallel development of the Cult of the Virgin Mary.
January 2010 Offering:
10367: MTWRF, 11:20 a.m.-3:05 p.m.; MacCary; 134 Gallon Wing
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