The science of tender passion: attempts to conceptualize love in the Ovidian tradition of the Middle Ages

Authors

  • Marina A. Mojeiko Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts, 17 Rabkaraŭskaja Street, Minsk 220007, Belarus

Keywords:

origins of love, attributes of love, love hierarchy, love and marriage, love and knowledge, love and moral perfection, self-­awareness of chivalry, estate morality, the phenomenon of courtesy

Abstract

Devoted to the consideration of the theoretical constructions formed in the framework of the Ovidian Renaissance, reflecting the interpretation of love in the context of Western European culture at the turn of the 12th–13th centuries. The specific characteristics of the definition of love are revealed in the context of the treatises of this period.

Author Biography

  • Marina A. Mojeiko, Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts, 17 Rabkaraŭskaja Street, Minsk 220007, Belarus

    doctor of science (philosophy), full professor; head of the department of philosophy and methodology of humanities, faculty of culturology and sociocultural activities

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2020-01-03

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Mojeiko, M.A. 2020. The science of tender passion: attempts to conceptualize love in the Ovidian tradition of the Middle Ages. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology. 4 (Jan. 2020), 86–97.