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BL
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Record Number
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720730
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b540427
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Main Entry
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Tracy Adams.
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Title & Author
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Violent passions : : managing love in the Old French verse romance\ Tracy Adams.
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Edition Statement
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1st ed
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Publication Statement
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New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
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Series Statement
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Studies in Arthurian and courtly cultures.
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Page. NO
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(xii, 311 pages)
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ISBN
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1281368903
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: 1403980888
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: 6611368906
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: 9781281368904
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: 9781403980885
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: 9786611368906
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Contents
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The Problem of Love --;The Mad Lovers of the Ovidian Lais --;Marriage and Amor --;The Roman d'Eneas and the Erotics of Empire Building --;"Making Love" in Béroul and Thomas's Tristan --;The Magister Amoris and his Willful Lovers: Cligés and the Chevalier de la Charrete.
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Abstract
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This book re-evaluates the perception of "courtly love" in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn.
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Subject
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Courtly love in literature.
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Subject
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French poetry -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
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Subject
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Love in literature.
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LC Classification
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PQ155.L7T733 2005
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Added Entry
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Tracy Adams
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