Courtly Literature
Culture and Context - Congress Proceedings

The 45 articles selected here centre around three themes: rhetoric and courtly literature, the audience of courtly literature, and courtly literature in a comparative perspective.

The 45 articles selected here center around three themes: rhetoric and coutly literature, the audience of courtly literature, and courtly literature in a comparative perspective. There are contributions by speci alists in Old French literature on such diverse topics as Adenet le Roi, Rene d'Anjou, "Le Bel Inconnu", and 15th-century prose chronicles; by Provencalists on the eternal topic of courtly love; by Anglicists on Chaucer, Henryson, Malory, and others; by Germanists on Heinrich von Morungen, "der Schwanritter", and Walther von der Vogelweide; by Hispanists on "La Celestina" and the "Historia Troiana"; there are also articles on Italian, Dutch, and Scandinavian literature, and two relating to Persian and Arabic courtly texts.