The definitions of love given by the monks and scholars, the courtly poets and bawdy ballad-writers of medieval France form the substance of this graceful and perceptive book, through a wealth of original sources and scholarly literature.
Reviews
"Gives us a view of the pulsating life of twelfth-century France by a perceptive study of one of the topics that absorbed the most energy of that age, and of our own--love."--Cistercian Studies