Rewriting Love in the Twelfth Century
Ideology, Gender and Tradition in the "Roman d'Eneas"
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https://doi.org/10.18172/cif.6933Keywords:
Roman d'Eneas, Matter of Rome, French literature, medieval literature, love, AeneidAbstract
This article examines the representation of love in the Roman d’Eneas (ca. 1155-1160), a medieval adaptation of the Aeneid that reinterprets the classical poem through the social and narrative codes of feudal France. Through a comparative analysis of Aeneas’s contrasting relationships with Dido and Lavinia –the former, passionate and tragic; the latter, linked to marriage and dynastic continuity– the article traces the transformation of the theme of love from pagan eros to an aesthetic anticipating the roman courtois, via the commonplaces of Provençal fin’amors. The study explores the medieval author’s innovations and reveals not only the adaptation of values, genres and structures, but also the emergence of new female figures and a literary outlook that reflects the ideological tensions of the twelfth century.
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