The Allegory of Love
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Chapter Book · Ages 14–100 · 1936

The Allegory of Love

Written by C. S. Lewis and C. S. Lewis

Explore the evolution of courtly love and its allegorical roots in medieval literature.

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Journey through the medieval and Renaissance eras as the concept of courtly love unfolds in literature. Discover how this powerful sentiment shaped works like The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene. Delve into the minds of poets such as Chaucer and Gower, and witness the transformation of love's allegorical expression from its origins in eleventh-century Languedoc to its decline in the sixteenth century. What secrets do these timeless poems hold about the nature of love and its enduring influence?

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The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called ‘courtly love’ and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century. Lewis devotes particular attention to the major poems The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to poets including Chaucer, Gower and Thomas Usk.

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Format
Paperback
Pages
488
Reading age
14–100
Audience
Adult
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Publication
Published
May 21, 1936
First published
January 1, 1936
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781107659438

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