Monks and hermits in medieval love stories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11891982 |
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| Authors | Jean Leclercq (a Abbaye de Clervaux, Clervaux, Luxembourg, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 341-356 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Medieval History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-4181 • E-ISSN: 1873-1279 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/0304-4181(92)90007-l |
| OpenAlex | W1964904789 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Monks and hermits are frequently mentioned in courtly romances. It is an unresolved problem whether these are real men or the product of literary imagination. The monks and hermits of love literature do evolve over time: whereas in the twelfth century they are predominantly monastic figures, later they are laymen. This article examines the literary image of the monk and hermit, including their role as advocates of marital fidelity, and asks how effective these models were for contemporary Christians, especially in cases where poets abandoned their secular life to become monks and hermits. With the rise of the friars traditional literary images were not abandoned. Emphasis is placed on the role of the hermit as a symbol of the quest for divine love
Art · Fidelity · Literature · Love story · Symbol (formal · Early Modern Women Writers · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Highly cited | No |
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