Jessica Rosenfeld provides a history of the ethics of medieval
vernacular love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late
medieval reception of Aristotle. Beginning with a history of the
idea of enjoyment from Plato to Peter Abelard and the troubadours,
the book then presents a literary and philosophical history of the
medieval ethics of love, centered on the legacy of the Roman de la
Rose. The chapters reveal that 'courtly love' was scarcely confined
to what is often characterized as an ethic of sacrifice and
deferral, but also engaged with Aristotelian ideas about pleasure
and earthly happiness. Readings of Machaut, Froissart, Chaucer,
Dante, Deguileville and Langland show that poets were often
markedly aware of the overlapping ethical languages of philosophy
and erotic poetry. The study's conclusion places medieval poetry
and philosophy in the context of psychoanalytic ethics, and argues
for a re-evaluation of Lacan's ideas about courtly love.
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