MEDIEVAL LEGENDS OF LOVE AND LUST

Entertainingly retold from translations of the original texts, these thirty stories from medieval Europe feature dramatic adventures in courtly love, mystical passion, bawdy and jocular tales, tragedy, scandal and feminist longing. Discover the 12th century #MeToo scandal of Abelard and Heloise; why a medieval feminist condemned the bestselling Romance of the Rose; bawdy tales from Chaucer and Boccaccio; why men were banned from the mysterious City of Ladies; the tear-jerking twists and turns of the Portuguese romantic epic Amadis and Oriana - and much more.