The Dullness of the Past: An Inaugural Lecture |
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Abelard amateur analyse Andreas Aquitaine art of love Arthurian romance Bernard betrothed carnal passion Chrétien Christian Cicero Cistercian civilisation Clairvaux countess of Champagne courtly love courts of love devotees doctrine Dunciad Eleanor England expression fession field grown accustomed Heloise historian Housman's human knowledge human love inherently dull interest Jacob Burckhardt knightly lady LIVERPOOL Louis VII love and friendship love and marriage marriage bond married mean medieval Church mistress modern world modes of thought mystical union nephew by marriage notion that history Ovid owes parody partly Parzifal past pleasures poet Pope problem Provençal quest range of emotion reconciliation repudiate the notion romantic attitude romantic love romantic tradition runneth scholars scholarship sense of proportion Song of Solomon specialist sublime techniques theme theologian things total of human Troubadours Troyes truth twelfth century vision walls which surround whole wide wider circle Wolfram von Eschenbach woman word worship