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Papers of the first annual conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies State University of New York at Binghamton March 17-18, 1967
Edited by F. X. Newman
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS ALBANY
First Edition
First paperbound printing 1972
Published by State University of New York Press, 99 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12210
Copyright 1968 The Research Foundation of State University of New York. All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
The Library of Congress catalogued the original printing of this book as follows:
The Meaning of courtly love. Edited by F. X. Newman. "Papers of the first annual conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, March 17-18, 1967." Includes bibliographical references. "A selected bibliography on the theory of courtly love": p. 97-102. 1. Courtly love. I. Newman, F. X., ed. II. New York (State) State University at Binghamton. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. GT2620.M4395'.1'468-25571 ISBN 0-87395-038-0 ISBN 0-87395-138-7 (microfiche) ISBN 0-87395-222-7 (pbk)
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Contents
Preface
F. X. NEWMAN
v
The Concept of Courtly Love as an Impediment to the Understanding of Medieval Texts
D. W. ROBERTSON, JR.
1
Clio and Venus: An Historical View of Medieval Love
JOHN F. BENTON
19
Dante: Within Courtly Love and Beyond
CHARLES S. SINGLETON
43
Faith UnfaithfulThe German Reaction to Courtly Love
W. T. H. JACKSON
55
Guenevere, or the Uses of Courtly Love
THEODORE SILVERSTEIN
77
Discussion
91
A Selected Bibiliography of the Theory of Courtly Love
97
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Preface
This book consists of five papers read at a conference sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies of the State University of New York at Binghamton on March 17-18, 1967. A partial transcript of the round-table discussion which concluded the conference follows the texts of the papers. A selected bibliography of recent writings on the subject of courtly love has been appended to the conference record, both to suggest the background of scholarship against which the conference took place and to provide the interested reader with a guide to further exploration of the question.
The papers were originally written to be heard rather than read and, although each speaker has had the opportunity to revise his contribution, none has chosen to make substantial alterations in his original text. These pages are therefore intended to be a written record of what was an oral event and retain, it is hoped, some of the informality and spontaneity that marked the conference itself. The papers, it should be added, are entirely independent of each other. Since the circumstances of the occasion prevented an exchange of texts, the speakers knew only the fides of the other contributions in advance of the conference. Therefore, whatever consistency or conflict the reader may notice as he proceeds from essay to essay is not the product of design, but the result of the commonly felt pressures of the subject itself.
That subject is courtly love (or amour courtois, or bfische Minne, or amore corteze) and the aim of the Center in sponsoring the conference was to prompt a public examination of the vitality of the conception among contemporary medievalists. Ever since
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Gaston Paris introduced the term in a famous article in Romania in 1883, amour courtois has been a conventional part of the critical vocabulary of medieval studies. From the first it was a notion that provoked clashing opinions, some of which are chronicled in Mr. Silverstein's essay. But in recent years the discussion has taken a rather new turn. The central issue in the disputes over amour courtois has usually been the problem of its origin. Claims for a variety of sources and influencesOvid, Catharism, Mozarabic lyricism, Bernardine mysticism, the Provencal sun, and so forth-have been proposed and controverted. Despite their differences, however, scholars seemed able to use the term amour courtois with a certain confidence in its mutual meaningfulness. It is easy to show that some of this confidence was misplaced; nonetheless it is true that there has been from the beginning a kind of orthodoxy on the subject, a core of common assumptions. The novelty of much of the recent discussion of courtly love is that it questions, not simply one or another theory of origin, but the content of the term itself. Not long ago, for example, an eminent medievalist published a stock-taking essay on the subject and entitled it "The Myth of Courtly Love." The flat skepticism of that tide reflects something of the new tone that has entered the discussion.
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