Beasts of Love : : Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour and the Response / / Jeanette Beer.

The first gendered prose debate in a European vernacular, Le Bestiaire d'amour and subsequent Response constitute a clash of opposites: a medieval chancellor's erotic bestiary to a woman is countered by the woman's passionate protest against the cleric's misogynistic presuppositi...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2003
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. Love and Reason
  • CHAPTER TWO. Love and the Senses
  • CHAPTER THREE. Remedies for Love
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Love for Women
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Woman's Response
  • CHAPTER SIX. Later Developments
  • APPENDIX 1. 'De quoi li home est fais, et de sa nature'
  • APPENDIX 2. Prologue to the Response
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Index of Animals