Three Chapters on Courtly Love in Arthurian France and Germany

Lancelot--Andreas Capellanus--Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival

Three Chapters on Courtly Love in Arthurian France and Germany

72 pp., 6 x 9, 1 halftones, notes, index

  • Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-8017-3
    Published: May 2020

University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature

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By analyzing Chrétien's Cligès, Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, Chrétien's Chevalier de la Charette, and the Old French Prose Lancelot, as well as Andreas Capellanus' De Amore and Eschenbach's Parzival, Weigand presents a picture of the ideals of courtly love in Europe in the latter half of the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth centuries. A long chapter on Parzival focuses especially on the introduction of Christian themes and changing ideas of the compatibility of love and marriage.