C. Stephen Jaeger Ordre des livres

Public avowals of love between men were common from antiquity through the Middle Ages. What do these expressions leave to interpretation? This title charts the social constructions of passion and sexuality in our own times, no less than in the Middle Ages.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic BookArgues that the origins of courtliness lie in the German courts, their courtier class, and the education for court service in the tenth and eleventh centuries.