Love and its Critics - 4. The Troubadours and Fin'amor: Love

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In Erich Auerbach’s view, “for the Provençal poets and the [Italian] poets of the new style [dolce stil novo], ‘high love’ was the only major theme”.1 Speaking of die hohe Minne (what French scholars call amour courtois, and English scholars “courtly love”), Auerbach gives voice to a critical consensus that over the last century-and-a half has dominated our understanding of the origins and development of western love poetry. Both the consensus, and Auerbach, are wrong. I. Why “Courtly Love” Is