The joy of love : a medieval literary history /
Joy in literature and culture remains a little-studied subject, one sometimes even viewed with suspicion. Here, Lucie Kaempfer reveals its place at the crux of medieval discourses on love in literary culture throughout Europe and across French, English and Italian literatures, unearthing a language...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature.
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| Summary: | Joy in literature and culture remains a little-studied subject, one sometimes even viewed with suspicion. Here, Lucie Kaempfer reveals its place at the crux of medieval discourses on love in literary culture throughout Europe and across French, English and Italian literatures, unearthing a language that still speaks to us today. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 233 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009553445 1009553445 |