LES ORIGINES ET LA FORMATION DE LA LITTÉRATURE COURTOISE EN OCCIDENT, 500-1200. TOME 3.

After describing, in the first part, intellectual and literary court life which carried on the Imperial Roman tradition from the end of Antiquity up to the end of the eleventh century, the author examines, in the second part, the rise of a new – feudal – society, and its influence on intellectual life by giving that tradition a new form.\In the third and last part, Reto Bezzola reaches the decisive phase of this evolution. Secular literature cultivated in various courts was transformed to express a new conception of man and his place in the community. With the rise of a new conception of love and women, and thereby of a new school of lyric poetry in the South of France, a no less impressive transformation of thought, manners and customs in the North paved the way at the same time for a new conception of the community and of the role which both prince and ruling class were called upon to play in it.\

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