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.
Andreas Capellanus’s De amore categorically declares themes of men’s protest of women while invoking tedium, insincerity, and lack of reciprocity. … Read the post De amore dialogically manipulated men’s protest of women
Andreas Capellanus’s medieval treatise De amore indicates that in medieval Europe, natural dread game was more important than supernatural dread game. … Read the post varieties of dread game in Andreas Capellanus’s De amore
Superficially learned and provocative, Andreas Capellanus’s De amore is a unique work of second-sophistic rhetoric in high medieval Europe. … Read the post De amore: Andreas Capellanus’s second-sophistic rhetoric