Contents:
Preface
Tristan and Isolde –
Love and death
Vis and Ramin –
Adulterous love in ancient Persia
Lancelot and Guinevere –
When exemplary behaviour permits (almost) anything
Camillus and Emilia –
Love under black skies
Flore and Blanscheflur –
Love from childhood on
Layla and Majnun –
Possessed by love
Elizabeth and Louis of
Thuringia – Marital love among the aristocracy, too
Heloise and Abelard –
Love of God?
Eleanor and Henry of
England – Literature and life
Siegfried and Kriemhild
– Love, death and vengeance
Sigurd and Brynhilde –
The fatal love of the heroes
Tannhäuser and Venus –
Love and eternal damnation
Melusine and Raymond –
The love of the mermaid
Lanval and the fairy –
Love in Avalon
Lohengrin and Elsa – No
questions allowed
Erec and Enide – Love in
society
Magelone and Peter –
True love endures
Agnes Bernauer and Duke
Albert – Love against the nobility
Henry and the peasant’s
daughter – All are equal before God
Aeneas, Dido and Lavine
– Wrong and right love?
Gahmuret and Belacane –
Love conquers everything, triumph in battle is more important
Parzival and
Condwiramurs – Love and/or the Grail
Gawain and Orgeluse –
Experienced in love
Leufried and Angliana –
Love and advancement
Ines de Castro and Pedro
I of Portugal – Posthumous queen
Jaufré Rudel and
Melisande of Tripoli – Fictional love
Ulrich von Liechtenstein – No fool in love
Dante and Beatrice –
Poetry or a poet’s love?
Oswald and Margarethe –
No poet’s love
Mai and Beaflor – Love
in spite of parents
Guy de Coucy and
Gabrielle de Vergy – The eaten heart
Amelia and Lasarus –
Domestic happiness
Guigemar and the
loveknot – The “chastity belt”
Epilogue: Under the
linden tree ...
Bibliography
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Author:
Volker Mertens, born 14
September 1937,
studied German, English,
anthropology
and philosophy in
Freiburg, Göttingen, Vienna, Munich and
Würzburg; since 1977, Professor
of Medieval German Literature and Language at the Free
University Berlin;
numerous
visiting professorships, works on the
medieval epic,
poetry and spiritual
literature, on topics
of modern German
literature and
music (Richard
Wagner in particular).
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