Signs of love: views of love in Perion, Galaor and Amadís

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/2284-2667/1093

Keywords:

Amadís de Gaula, amor hereos, courtly love, symptoms, signs of love

Abstract

The different medieval notions of amor hereos vary as dictated by the medical, clerical, and literary discourses. Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo’s Amadís de Gaula manages to preserve the complexities of the sickness of love in different ways and in several of its knights. Signs of love in Perión, Galaor and Amadís and the strategies they assume to remedy them are the product of how medieval ideas gave way to the creation of literary topics. These echoes of the complicated medieval understanding of love evoke the spirit of the Amadís primitivo more than Montalvo’s skillful prose.

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Published

2021-12-23