Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Mrts Arizona State University
ISBN 13 : 9780866983952
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (839 download)
Book Synopsis Words of Love and Love of Words in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by : Albrecht Classen
Download or read book Words of Love and Love of Words in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Albrecht Classen and published by Mrts Arizona State University. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poets in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age constantly explored the discourse of love, and nothing seems to have mattered more than love in the world of the courts. But what was it all about, and what did love mean? This book argues that love then was much more than the simple exploration of an emotion. Instead, the discourse examined here from many interdisciplinary perspectives served as a springboard for fundamental epistemological investigations into the meaning of human life in erotic, spiritual, and philosophical terms. Words of love implied, in a chiasmic manner, love of words, and in this sense the discourse of love aimed for the development of communication, ethics, morality, spirituality, and the entire value system of courtly society far into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. To love meant to talk about love, and this experience led to the formation of the individual, social relations, connections to the Godhead, hence the realization of the spiritual dimension of human existence through love, happiness, joy, harmony, and ultimately the transformational magic of language." --