The Comedy of Eros: Medieval French Guides to the Art of Love

Advice on Love Advice to Ladies Aelred of Rievaulx Alain de Lille amicitia amorous Andreas Capellanus Andreas's Art of Love Bestiary Beware BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE century choose Cicero court courtly love courtoisie d'amours delight desire Distichs of Cato Drouart la Vache edition evil eyes fair flesh French gallant Gaston Paris gentle give Guiart haughty heart keep Key to Love kiss lady's lass Latin lest love's loyal lover maiden Maître Élie man's medieval Middle Ages Milady mind never Ovid Ovid's Ars amatoria Ovidian pain Paris passion Pierre de Blois poem poet praise pray precepts proper prose proverb Remedia amoris Richard de Fournival Robert Bossuat Robert de Blois romances romantic love Rules of Love speak spurn suitor sure swain sweet T. H. White tell tender thirteenth-century tion tongue translation truth vernacular verse virtue wench wish woman women words worth yearning