Was the tremendous power that women wielded in courtly love an escapist fantasy or an indication of lived experience? What are the modern inheritances of medieval love in terms of gender roles and ...

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From medieval “courtly love” to the work of such influential French feminists as Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène Cixous, issues of gender and sexuality have been at the core of French and Francophone ...