Andreas Capellanus, “the lover Andreas, chaplain to the royal court {amator Andreas aulae regiae capellanus},” is the nominal author of the Latin treatise On Love {De amore}, also know as On the art of dignified loving {De arte honeste amandi}. Nothing otherwise is known for certain about Andreas Capellanus in relation to De amore. De amore probably was written in France about the year 1180. It encompasses the ideology of men’s love servitude and, in Book 3, the literature of men’s sexed protest.
De amore incorporated the sophistic form of Seneca’s Controversiae. Gesta Romanorum included Seneca’s story of a woman freeing a man from incarceration. … Read the post De amore & Gesta Romanorum revised Seneca’s Controversiae
Andreas Capellanus’s Latin Arthurian romance (the Sparrowhawk episode) reveals his contempt for the new understanding of chivalric love. … Read the post Andreas Capellanus depicted shifting meaning of chivalric love
Saying that men are dogs is a common sort of disparagement of men today. The long history of that claim indicates an important truth. … Read the post men are dogs: important truth in disparaging men
The sexual economics of Andreas Capellanus’s De amore claims global welfare benefits from toil of men not free to choose in important ways. … Read the post De amore’s sexual economics supports gender inequality
Dilating on De amore, the medieval Archpriest of Talavera includes mimesis of woman’s speech — realistic, in-character utterances of a wildly comic woman. … Read the post medieval mimesis of woman’s speech in Archpriest of Talavera