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Courtly Love Undressed
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The Middle Ages

Courtly Love Undressed (edit title/settings)

Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture

by E. Jane Burns (Author) (edit contributors)

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In the later Middle Ages, clothing was used to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders; in the courtly milieu, more specifically, the ostentatious display of luxury dress was used as a means of self-definition for the ruling elite. In "Courtly Love Undressed", E. Jane Burns explores the... read more

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Jean de Meun's thirteenth-century version of the Roman de la Rose opens with a standard clerical condemnation of courtly love as a kind of incurable torment that enflames the hearts of fools and makes them suffer unrequited desire.

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This book is in The Middle Ages. (standard series)

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  1. E. Jane Burns (Author)

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