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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Courtly Love -- from then to now
Courtly Love is a subject much discussed and much misunderstood. Jean Markale helps to clear the fog away from the subject, revealing the practice, and the culture within which it grew, in terms of a moral-poetic quest and an enhanting experience of heterosexual relationships. Perhaps the leading expert on all things Celtic, Markale traces the history of the concept from...
Published on March 20, 2001
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Pretty light
This was interesting, but poorly written (or, translated?) and light in terms of backing up the thesis with concrete examples. I came away unconvinced, but intrigued.
Published on August 15, 2002 by Brennan T. MacDowell
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Courtly Love -- from then to now,
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This review is from: Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation (Paperback)
Courtly Love is a subject much discussed and much misunderstood. Jean Markale helps to clear the fog away from the subject, revealing the practice, and the culture within which it grew, in terms of a moral-poetic quest and an enhanting experience of heterosexual relationships. Perhaps the leading expert on all things Celtic, Markale traces the history of the concept from its life-giving roots in pre-Roman times through its various manifestations in southern France, to the deformations forced upon it by the Catholic Church, to its relation to Tantric Yoga. Courtly Love is not so much a unique study as an important reappraisal of the first appearence of the idea of elective love within post-Roman Europe. It is definitely worth the read!
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation (Paperback)
This was interesting, but poorly written (or, translated?) and light in terms of backing up the thesis with concrete examples. I came away unconvinced, but intrigued.
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Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation by Jean Markale (Paperback - Nov. 2000)
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