Courtly love : the path of sexual initiation
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TextRochester, VT Inner Traditions c2000Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 242p.; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0892817712
- PN682.C6 M2813 2000
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Orig. pub. in French under the title L'amour courtois, ou, Le couple infernal by Editions Imago, c1987.. Transl. by Jon Graham.
Introduction - The game of love and knightly prowess. 1 The laws of love. 2 Love in question. 3 Ambiguous liturgies
'...Medieval historians have tended to regard courtly love as a sterile parlor game for the upper classes. To the contrary, Jean Markale shows that the stakes were much higher and the roots of the ritual re-created here go all the way back to the great mother goddess. In addition, the platonic nature attributed to these relationships is based on a misunderstanding of courtly love; underneath the refined prose of the troubadours' verses flourished a system of sexual initiation that rivals Indian tantra.'
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