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Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance
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October 1, 2008
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TRACY ADAMS, Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures) NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 311. ISBN: 1-4039-6294-4. $69.95.
Tracy Adams's study of love in the twelfth-century Old French romance offers much of interest to Arthurian scholars. In addition to her analysis of Tristan et Iseut and two of Chrétien de Troyes's romances, Adams's larger argument about the representation of love in twelfth-century romance clearly has the potential to infl uence studies of other Arthurian texts. The volume is divided into six chapters, with an introduction and conclusion, bibliography, and index.
The main premise of Adams's argument is ...
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