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Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Every aspect of "courtly culture" comes to life in Joachim Bumke's extraordinarily rich and well documented presentation. A renowned medievalist with an encyclopedic knowledge of original sources and a passion for history, Bumke overlooks no detail, from the material realities of aristocratic society -- the castles and clothing, weapons and transportation, food, drink, and table etiquette -- to the behavior prescribed and practiced at tournaments,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom distills the central tenets of the Gallic gospel of love from her reading of the great French literary works, as well as from the people she has known and her own memories of France, examining almost a thousand years of divine culture in search of the intimate moments that reveal how the particularly French concept of l'amour has endured and evolved.
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