Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Volume 278) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) - Tapa dura

American and European scholars delve beneath the traditional view of courtly literature to emphasize the elements of transgression affecting love, friendship, and marriage. Courtly love, they find, was a linguistic and artistic construct that involved violence and playfulness, and provided the catalyst to transgress all norms of medieval society but also reconstituted that very society. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)