Discourses On Love, Marriage, And Transgression In Medieval And Early Modern Literature (MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEXTS AND STUDIES, 278)

American and European scholars delve beneath the traditional view of courtly literature to emphasize the elements of transgression affecting love, friendship, and marriage. Courtly love, they find, was a linguistic and artistic construct that involved violence and playfulness, and provided the catalyst to transgress all norms of medieval society but also reconstituted that very society. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)