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Medieval Love Letters
  • A Critical Anthology
  • Myra Stokes, Ad Putter
  • Published online:
    28 November 2024
    Print publication:
    28 November 2024
  • In the Middle Ages, educated people communicated their love in verse letters that revealed at once their personal commitments and their commitments to an established form of literary art. Medieval Love Letters reveals the fascinating duality of the medieval love letter as literary art and as life-writing by exploring a wide variety of remarkable texts in English, French, German and Latin. These rich texts are made accessible both linguistically, in new editions and translations, and conceptually, by discussing them in a way intelligible to non-specialists. Edited and translated texts include model letters from instructional manuals and fictional verse and actual letters from clerics and lay people, men and women. A substantial introduction explores the interchange and overlap between fact and literary art with reference to wide range of examples.

  • 1 - Art and Actuality: An Overview

  • from Section I - Introduction: The Art of the Love Letter
  • Myra Stokes, University of Bristol, Ad Putter, University of Bristol
  • Book:
    Medieval Love Letters
    Published online:
    28 November 2024
    Print publication:
    28 November 2024, pp 3-26

  • Summary

    Artes Dictandi; use of French and of verse in letters; the verse epistle as a lyric genre; autobiographical ballade sequences; appropriation and imitation; doubt as between art and actuality

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