The Joy of Love in the Middle Ages: A European Literary History
Author:   Lucie Kaempfer (University of Geneva)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009553445


Pages:   246
Publication Date:   04 December 2025
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The Joy of Love in the Middle Ages: A European Literary History


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Author:   Lucie Kaempfer (University of Geneva)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781009553445


ISBN 10:   1009553445
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   04 December 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available, will be POD   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. 'Enter into the joy of your lord': writing the space of divine love's joy; 2. The genesis: Joie d'amour in old Occitan and old French poetry; 3. Transcending lyrical love's joy in the Italian trecento; 4. From joie to blisse: the international language of love's joy in fourteenth-century France and England; 5. 'And lat hem in this hevene blisse dwelle': Troilus and Criseyde in love's bliss; Conclusion; Metaphysical joy; Bibliography.

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Lucie Kaempfer is an independent scholar specialising in the history of emotions and in comparative and cross-cultural approaches to medieval European literature. Her previous publications cover topics including Chaucer, emotion, medieval romance and translation.

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