Medieval Love Letters
Author(s): Myra Stokes, Ad Putter
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In the Middle Ages, educated people communicated their love in verse letters that revealed at once their personal commitments and their commitments to an established form of literary art. Medieval Love Letters reveals the fascinating duality of the medieval love letter as literary art and as life-writing by exploring a wide variety of remarkable texts in English, French, German and Latin. These rich texts are made accessible both linguistically, in new editions and translations, and conceptually, by discussing them in a way intelligible to non-specialists. Edited and translated texts include model letters from instructional manuals and fictional verse and actual letters from clerics and lay people, men and women. A substantial introduction explores the interchange and overlap between fact and literary art with reference to wide range of examples.
- Covers diverse kinds of documents, including examples of narrative and lyrical verse, instructional manuals, drafts and copies of letters and actual missives
- Includes material from Latin and French (and sometimes German) as well as Middle English, encouraging students to take into account the European and tri-lingual nature of the medieval culture of any one nation
- Shows the cross-influences and interactions between art and actuality and between functional and literary texts in a written culture
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