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This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge.

Love poetry --- Courtly love in literature. --- Courtly love --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Love --- Chivalry --- Courts of love --- Minnesingers --- Troubadours --- Trouvères --- critical reception --- fin’amor --- love --- western canon --- poetry --- hermeneutics --- troubadour poets --- God --- Ovid