Andreas capellanus biography

Andreas Capellanus' De amore is the most influential handbook on love written in the middle ages.

At least its influence is remarkably strong among modern critics. It first came to the attention of critics in the famous article by Gaston Paris, "Ètudes sur le roman de la table ronde.

Andreas capellanus biography wikipedia

Lancelot du Lac. II Le conte de la Charette," Romania XII (1883), 459ff. Paris showed that the sometimes puzzling forms and customs of love that appeared in medieval romance, most notably Chrétien de Troie's Lancelot, were exactly those recommended by Andreas Capellanus.

(For a translation of Lancelot [From the Online Medieval and Classical Library maintained by Douglas B. Killings at Berkeley] click here).

Paris popularized the label "courtly love" (amour cortois) for this form of courtship; that phrase was rare in the Middle Ages (fin amour, Minne, and, in English "trwe love," were far more common, though they