Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on the Edited Texts
- List of Abbreviations
- Section I Introduction: The Art of the Love Letter
- 1 Art and Actuality: An Overview
- 2 Occasions; Ways and Means; Male and Female Voices
- 3 Clerics and Convents: Epistolae duorum amantium; Abelard and Heloise; Baudri of Bourgueil; Regensburg; Tegernsee; Söflingen
- Section II Fictional and Instructional Models
- Section III Actual Letters (Drafts, Copies, Missives)
- Select Bibliography
- Index
1 - Art and Actuality: An Overview
from Section I - Introduction: The Art of the Love Letter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on the Edited Texts
- List of Abbreviations
- Section I Introduction: The Art of the Love Letter
- 1 Art and Actuality: An Overview
- 2 Occasions; Ways and Means; Male and Female Voices
- 3 Clerics and Convents: Epistolae duorum amantium; Abelard and Heloise; Baudri of Bourgueil; Regensburg; Tegernsee; Söflingen
- Section II Fictional and Instructional Models
- Section III Actual Letters (Drafts, Copies, Missives)
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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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- Medieval Love LettersA Critical Anthology, pp. 3 - 26Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024