 | The Art of Love: Amatory Fiction from Ovid to the Romance of the Rose Subjects: Courtly love in literature; Ovid 43 B.C.–17 or 18 A. D. -- Criticism and interpretation; Jean de Meun d. 1305 -- Criticism and interpretation; Guillaume de Lorris fl. 1230 -- Criticism and interpretation; André le chapelain -- Criticism and interpre; In The Art of Love , Allen argues that the De amore and the Romance of the Rose are central to the courtly tradition and use the classical tradition in a particularly assertive fashion--and suggest a way for fantasies of love to exist even against a background of ecclesiastical prohibition. Allen Peter L. : Peter L. Allen is a scholar, author, educator, and executive. He is the author of The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present. |
