Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Problems of form: andreas and the scholastic method -- 1. The Problem of Genre: Description versus Prescription -- 2. Love and the Arts: Rhetoric versus Dialectic -- 3. The Intertextuality of Love: Authorities and Models -- 4. The Problem of Irony: Andreas and the Critics -- II. Problems of meaning: andreas and the courtly themes -- 5. Love and the Ontological Order: Andreas's Scholastic Definition -- 6. Love and the Natural Order: Psychology and Physiology -- 7. Love and the Social Order: Courtly Values and Feudal Society -- 8. Love and the Moral Order: Courtly Values and Christian Ethics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Indices.