Medieval Love Letters

by Ad Putter and Myra Stokes

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009398105
• ISBN13: 9781009398107
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"