Three Chapters on Courtly Love in Arthurian France and Germany

By analyzing Chretien's Cliges , Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet , Chretien's Chevalier de la Charette , and the Old French Prose Lancelot , as well as Andreas Capellanus' De Amore and Eschenbach's Parzival , Weigand presents a picture of the ideals of courtly love in Europe in the latter half of the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth centuries. A long chapter on Parzival focuses especially on the introduction of Christian themes and changing ideas of the compatibility of love and marriag