Words of Love and Love of Words in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies Volume 347)

vii, [1], 480 pp. A collection of scholarly essays, examining the meaning of love as it was understood in erotic, spiritual, and philosophical terms, and how it influenced the development of communication, ethics, morality, spirituality, and the entire value system of courtly society far into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.