Review of Cherchi, Paolo, 'Andreas and the ambiguity of courtly love', Toronto/Buffalo/London, University of Toronto Press, 1994: cloth; pp. xv, 194; R.R.P. CAN$50.00.

Title
Review of Cherchi, Paolo, 'Andreas and the ambiguity of courtly love', Toronto/Buffalo/London, University of Toronto Press, 1994: cloth; pp. xv, 194; R.R.P. CAN$50.00.
Publication Date
1996
Author(s)
Ryan, John S
Type of document
Review
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Place of publication
Australia
DOI
10.1353/pgn.1996.0073
UNE publication id
une:18261
Abstract
This powerfully argued volume provides a new reading of the 'De amore' of Andreas Capellanus. In the process it affirms the views of various critics of the last thirty years, such as D. W. Robertson, E. T. Donaldson, and F. L. Uuley, all of whom felt that the traditional notion, that Andreas was mocking married love, was too simple and in need of exposition as to the inherent ambiguity of his model of courtly love. As Cherchi stresses, the style used by he himself, a 'somewhat scholastic 'modus tractandi' (p. x), has come from his own teaching experiences. Of course, this is the nature of the original exposition and therefore is no bad thing, either historically or as a mode of clearer presentation of the present concepts.
Link
Citation
Parergon, 13(2), p. 235-238
ISSN
1832-8334
0313-6221
Start page
235
End page
238

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