Medieval Love-Fashioning examines the topic of fin’amor, “gentle love”, in poetry, verse romances, and prose from the European High and Late Middle Ages.
After a survey of Saint Augustine’s long drawn-out farewell to ancient poetry, the author examines other Late Antique dismissals as well as appropriations of the classical heritage, elucidating a cultural conflict which was to leave traces all through the Middle Ages and beyond.
Anders Cullhed’s studyexplores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as a remote anticipation of many later clashes between religious orthodoxy and literary fictionality.