FREN 4123 - Medieval Love

Effective Start Date: 09/26/2014
Love fascinated people in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as it still does today. This course will examine understandings and uses of love in religious and secular literature, music and art. What is the relationship, for medieval writers, between the love of God and the love of human beings? What is the role of poetry in promoting and producing love? What medieval ideas about love continue to shape our modern understandings and assumption Prerequisite: FREN 3032

Requisites: FREN 3032

Credits: 3