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by A Capellanus (Author) "Love is certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 218 pages
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press; Reprint edition (25 April 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0231073054
  • ISBN-13: 978-0231073059
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.2 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The social system of 'courtly love' soon spread after becoming popularized by the troubadours of southern France in the twelfth century. This book codifies life at Queen Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174 into "one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explain the secret of a civilization."

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Andreas Capellanus (Andre the Chaplain) wrote The Art of Courtly Love at the request of Countess Marie of Troyes, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The book is believed to have been intended to portray conditions at Queen Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174, but Capellanus wrote it most likely several years later.
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Love is certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things the embraces of the other and by common desire to carry out all of love's precepts in the other's embrace. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars Revealing book from 11th Century on Attaining Love, 7 Feb 1998
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This is the sort of book you look for, not a scholarly book compiled from various sources and presented for a modern reader, but a treatise written at the time that Courtly Love was at its height in France. This book consists of three sections. The first has dialogues between men and women of different classes, which are of a man trying to reason with a woman for her love. In the book there are two nice stories, but the third section was the most suprprising. The first two sections summarize the rules of love to a young man the author knows named Walter, but in the third he gives his own opinion about pursuing love and women to the boy that gave what seemed like a light work the ending of a heavy and controversial commentary. I liked it, and you will especially as preparation to reading books of the era such as King Arthur. I gave the book a rating of 8 only because the dialogues all seemed to be similar, but on the whole its a great book.
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