The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
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Overview
The Allegory of Love is a study in medieval tradition—the rise of both the sentiment called “courtly love” and of the allegorical method—from eleventh–century Languedoc through sixteenth–century England. C.S. Lewis devotes considerable attention to The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to such poets as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and Thomas Usk.
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Top Highlights
“The universe is a battlefield in which Change and Permanence contend.” (Page 435)
“Multa renascentur quae jam cecidere, cadentque Quae nunc sunt in honore” (Page iii)
“The sentiment, of course, is love, but love of a highly specialized sort, whose characteristics may be enumerated as Humility, Courtesy, Adultery, and the Religion of Love. The lover is always abject. Obedience to his lady’s lightest wish, however whimsical, and silent acquiescence in her rebukes, however unjust, are the only virtues he dares to claim.” (Page 2)
“to represent what is immaterial in picturable terms” (Page 51)
“Allegory, in some sense, belongs not to medieval man but to man, or even to mind, in general.” (Page 51)