The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition.
First Edition of C.S. Lewis' The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition.
LEWIS, C.S.
Item Number: 131151
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1936.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Scarce in this condition.
The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century.
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