Medieval Love-Fashioning: Configurations of Fin'Amor in European Literature, 1100-1485

Medieval Love-Fashioning examines the topic of fin’amor, “gentle love”, in poetry, verse romances, and prose from the European High and Late Middle Ages.

It shows how fin’amor was established in twelfth-century troubadour poetry, then modified, parodied, and critiqued through four centuries of imaginative literature. This approach aims to do justice to the diversity of literary representations and interpretations of love in the Middle Ages, while at the same time maintaining a strict focus o...