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Title: Courtly Love -- from then to now
Review: Courtly Love is a subject much discussed and much misunderstood. Jean Markale helps to clear the fog away from the subject, revealing the practice, and the culture within which it grew, in terms of a moral-poetic quest and an enhanting experience of heterosexual relationships. Perhaps the leading expert on all things Celtic, Markale traces the history of the concept from its life-giving roots in pre-Roman times through its various manifestations in southern France, to the deformations forced upon it by the Catholic Church, to its relation to Tantric Yoga. Courtly Love is not so much a unique study as an important reappraisal of the first appearence of the idea of elective love within post-Roman Europe. It is definitely worth the read!
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