The science of tender passion: attempts to codify 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:

knightly etiquette, love code, law courts of love, rules of love correspondence, idea of an individual, inner world, woman as a subject

Abstract

It is dedicated to the attempts made within the framework of the Ovidian Renaissance to create codes of practice that regulate and adjust human behavior in the space of love relationships. The features of love codes of the turn of the 12th–13th centuries are revealed.

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 metho dology of humanities, faculty of culturology and sociocultural activities

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2020-04-10

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Mojeiko, M.A. 2020. The science of tender passion: attempts to codify love in the Ovidian tradition of the Middle Ages. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology. 1 (Apr. 2020), 78–92.