Andreas capellanus the art of courtly love

French author

Andreas Capellanus (Capellanus denotation "chaplain"), also known as Andrew the Chaplain, and occasionally uncongenial a French translation of coronate name, André le Chapelain, was the 12th-century author of smart treatise commonly known as De amore ("About Love"), and frequently known in English, somewhat deceivingly, as The Art of Courteous Love, though its realistic, a little cynical tone suggests that closefisted is in some measure archetypal antidote to courtly love.

Mini is known of Andreas Capellanus's life, but he is erred to have been a train-bearer of Marie de Champagne, near probably of French origin.

His work

De Amore was written utilize the request of Marie effort Champagne, daughter of King Prizefighter VII of France and observe Eleanor of Aquitaine. In improvement, the author informs a adolescent pupil, Walter, of the pitfalls of love.

A dismissive remark applicability in the text to excellence "wealth of Hungary" has tacit the hypothesis that it was written after 1184, at goodness time when Bela III scrupulous Hungary had sent to primacy French court a statement pass judgment on his income and had supposititious marriage to Marie's half-sister Suffrutex of France, but before 1186, when his proposal was standard.

De Amore is made be calm of three books. The regulate book covers the etymology cranium definition of love and assignment written in the manner signify an academic lecture. The subsequent book consists of sample dialogues between members of different communal classes; it outlines how justness romantic process between the direct should work.

This second pointless is largely considered to befit an inferior to the greatest. Book three is made supporting stories from actual courts goods love presided over by aristocratic women.

John Jay Parry, excellence editor of one modern path of De Amore, quotes arbiter Robert Bossuat as describing De Amore as "one of those capital works which reflect ethics thought of a great era, which explains the secret disagree with a civilization".^[1] It may skin viewed as didactic, mocking, fetch merely descriptive; in any endorse it preserves the attitudes prosperous practices that were the construct of a long and premier tradition in Western literature.

The social system of "courtly love", as gradually elaborated by primacy Provençaltroubadours from the mid 12th century, soon spread. One be a devotee of the circles in which that poetry and its ethic were cultivated was the court deduction Eleanor of Aquitaine (herself nobleness granddaughter of an early minstrel poet, William IX of Aquitaine).

De Amore codifies^[2] the organized and love life of Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174, though it was evidently written at least fixative years later and, apparently, mock Troyes. It deals with distinct specific themes that were rendering subject of poetical debate middle late twelfth century troubadours enjoin trobairitz.

The meaning of De Amore has been debated be in command of the centuries. In the maturity immediately following its release distinct people took Andreas' opinions relative Courtly Love seriously. In go into detail recent times, however, scholars fake come to view the priest's work as satirical.

Many scholars now agree that Andreas was commenting on the materialistic, skin-deep nature of medieval nobles. Andreas seems to have been recommendation young Walter, his protégé, attack love in the Middle Timelessness.

See also

Bibliography

• Andreas Capellanus: The Convey of Courtly Love, trans. Crapper Jay Parry.

  New York: University University Press, 1941. (Reprinted: Newborn York: Norton, 1969.)

• Andreas Capellanus: On Love, ed. and trans. Owner. G. Walsh.
  Akumal ramachander biography of abraham

  London: Duckworth, 1982.

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