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Title: The Medieval Art of Love by Michael Camille ISBN: 0-8109-1544-8 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Medieval Lovers
Comment: The research developed by Professor Camille (Chicago University), is a good example of vitality and imagination put into the service of Art History. His most recent contribution as a book is The medieval art of love, which helps us to plunge in the world of medieval eroticism by constructing a wonderful work of synthesis which, embellished with superb illustrations, highlights the most remarkable contributions to this topic from the fields of literature, the history of mentalities and the visual arts.
The 12th and 13th centuries were baptized as "aetas ovidiana" (Traube), because of the high level reached by poets writing in Latin. I would dare to add another reason: in that time erotic literature knew a renaissance, which had as a result the eclosion of a profane iconography aimed to put in images what delighted the ears of cultivated people: we must bear in mind that the Middle Ages were an audio-visual time.
Cistercian sensibility was not alien to this process: the deep devotion that Saint Bernard felt for the Virgin explains in a good measure the new valoration of women since that time: we just have to remember that Gothic churches reserved portals to Mary. That was also the time when poems devoted to the Mother of God flourished.
Camille pulls together his book following the steps "traditionally associated with love": Visus (Love's looks), alloquium (Love's Gifts), contactus (Love's places), oscula (Love's signs) and factum (Love's goal).
With a very accesible language and an agile style, he guides us through the fascinating world of manuscripts, tapestries, jewelry or carvings devoted to eros and sexuality. Being a volume aimed to a wide audience, the author opted to limit the bibliographic references to a minimun and, consequently, he reccurs not to footnotes or erudite digressions, which allows an uninterrupted reading.
I highly recomend this work to everyone interested in being introduced in the marvelous time of idealized "courtly" Love.
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Title: The Art of Courtly Love by Andreas Capellanus, John Jay Parry ISBN: 0231073054 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art by Michael Camille ISBN: 0948462280 Publisher: Reaktion Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Arthurian Romances by Chretien De Troyes, William W. Kibler ISBN: 0140445218 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Embroiderers by Kay Staniland ISBN: 0802069150 Publisher: University of Toronto Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Taking Position: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture by Bette Talvacchia ISBN: 0691086834 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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