The Medieval Erotic Alba; Structure as Meaning.[Two Worlds of Love; Enemies of Love; The Watchman & the Lady; Time; The Alba and the Chanson; Alba-Scene in Chaucer's Troilus; Textual Problems with the Alba of Giraut de Bornelh; Heinrich von Morungen

Saville, Jonathan. [poems: Wofram von Eschenbach, Walter Chatillon, Prudentius, Giraut de Bornelh, Cadenet, Margrave of Hohenburg, Jean de Meun, Chaucer, Heinrich von Morungen]

ISBN 10: 0231035691 / ISBN 13: 9780231035699

Published by New York : Columbia University Press, 1972., 1972

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viii, 315 p. 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0231035691; LCCN: 77-190191 ; OCLC: 483561 ; blue cloth with silver lettering, in white blue and red dustjacket ; slight wear and fading to dustjacket, else VG/VG.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Medieval Erotic Alba; Structure as Meaning.[Two Worlds of Love; Enemies of Love; The Watchman & the Lady; Time; The Alba and the Chanson; Alba-Scene in Chaucer's Troilus; Textual Problems with the Alba of Giraut de Bornelh; Heinrich von Morungen
• Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 1972.
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231035691
• ISBN 13: 9780231035699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Catalog 60 - General

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Synopsis

This sudy focuses on the alba and attempts to understand its techniques and meanings not only in its own terms but also for the light of understanding it throws on other forms of medieval lyric and their later derivatives. Dr. Saville suggests that certain structures of the imagination which find expression in the medieval alba are characteristic of the medieval mind in general and may be detected in the other manifestations of medieval culture, including theology, the visual arts, and certain aspects of everyday life.