Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
For more than two centuries, scholars have debated the nature and significance of medieval courtly love. Was it merely a literary convention developed for aristocratic entertainment? Was it a social code governing relations between noble men and women? Was it an elaborate poetic fiction, detached from lived experience? Or did it embody a deeper intellectual project, one that sought to investigate the nature of desire, virtue, suffering, selfhood, and human fulfillment? The present study begins from the conviction that courtly love was not only a literary phenomenon but also a philosophical discourse. From its emergence in the aristocratic courts of twelfth-century southern France to its transformations in the closing years of the fifteenth century, courtly love developed into a sustained reflection on some of the most fundamental questions confronting medieval thought.
