Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love by Simon Gaunt
Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love

Simon Gaunt

Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love

Simon Gaunt

248 pages first pub 2006 (editions) user-added

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Some of medieval culture's most arresting images and stories inextricably associate love and death. Thus the troubadour Jaufre Rudel dies in the arms of the countess of Tripoli, having loved her from afar without ever having seen her. Or in Marie ...

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