The Medieval Erotic Alba : Structure As Meaning
by Jonathan Saville
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0231035691
- ISBN 13
- 9780231035699
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Columbia Univ Pr, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition. Hardcover. 315 pp. with index, bibliography. A study of the form of lyric poetry known as the "alba", a form which first made its appearance in Southern France in the mid-12th century and rapidly spread to the other countries of medieval Europe. The plot was always similar: the ecstatic love-making of a knight and a lady (not his wife) is interrupted by the dawn, signalled by bird song or the call of a watchman. The lovers must part, the knight going off into the world while the lady remains behind in anguish. Fine in dust jacket with fade to the spine.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E12251
- Title
- The Medieval Erotic Alba : Structure As Meaning
- Author
- Jonathan Saville
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0231035691
- ISBN 13
- 9780231035699
- Publisher
- Columbia Univ Pr
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- poetry, lyric poetry, alba, knights, love,
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