Calves
Peter Godman, 17 November 1983
Andreas Capellanus on Love
translated by P.G. Walsh.
Duckworth, 329 pp., £28, November 1982,0 7156 1436 3 Show More
translated by P.G. Walsh.
Duckworth, 329 pp., £28, November 1982,
“... Amore’s date of composition may be half a century later than the period (the 1180s) favoured by Walsh: any time between 1174 and 1238 is possible. The very existence of the courts of love upon whose judgments Andreas is assumed to have drawn has been seriously doubted, while the equation of the feelings described in De Amore with the love the troubadours ... ”