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Ennobling Love

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First published: 1999
Pages: 319
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C. Stephen Jaeger's book "Ennobling Love" In Search of a Lost Sensibility" examines friendship and love in the Middle Ages. It represents love as a social ideal and a means of aristocratic self-representation, elevating dignity, morality, and renown.

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C. Stephen Jaeger

C. Stephen Jaeger is a scholar of medieval German and Latin literature whose work examines education, courtly conduct, emotion, and ideals of personal character. Ennobling Love studies forms of affectionate attachment that medieval aristocratic culture treated as sources of virtue and honour.

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