Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Cordelia on Trial -- Part I: Charismatic Love and Friendship -- 1 Problems of Reading the Language of Passionate Friendship -- 2 Virtue and Ennobling Love ( i ) : Antiquity and Early Christianity -- 3 Love of King and Court -- 4 Love, Friendship, and Virtue in Pre-Courtly Literature -- 5 Love in Education, Education in Love -- 6 Women -- Part II: Sublime Love -- 7: Sublime Love -- 8: Love Beyond the Body -- 9: Sleeping and Eating Together -- 10: Eros Denied, Eros Defied -- 11: Virtue and Ennobling Love (2): Value, Worth, Reputation -- Part III: Unsolvable Problems - Romantic Solutions: The Romantic Dilemma -- 12: The Epistolae duorum amantium, Heloise, and Her Orbit -- 13: The Loves of Christina of Markyate -- 14: Virtuous Chastity, Virtuous Passion - Romantic Solutions in Two Courtly Epics -- 15: The Grand Amatory Mode of die Noble Life -- Appendix: English Translations of Selected Texts -- Alcuin, one letter and three poems -- Hildesheim Letter, Epist. 36, a master to his student -- Letter of R. of Mainz to the students of the Worms cathedral school -- Baudri of Bourgueil, poem to a haughty boy -- Marbod of Rennes, "On the Good Woman," from the Book of Ten Chapters -- From the Regensburg Love Songs (No. 28) -- From the "Letters of Two Lovers" (Epistolae duorum amantium) -- "Metamorphosis Goliae" -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.