Confessio Amantis; Or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Gower, John, 1325?-1408

Subjects: “…Courtly love -- Poetry…”
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Table of Contents: “…Bernard and the rise of Cistercian monasticism -- Bernard's sermon on humility -- Frederick I Barbarossa: power over the papacy -- Becket controversy -- Henry II: conflict with the church -- Crusades: Holy Crusades -- Crusading knights: Knights Templar and Hospitaler -- Islamic reaction to the Crusades -- Crusaders through the eyes of a Muslim -- Chivalry and courtly love: Feudalism and knightly ethics -- World of knights: fact and fiction -- Chretien de Troyes and courtly love -- Lancelot and Guinevere -- Influence of the troubadours -- Songs of a troubadour -- Romantic legend: Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Twelfth-century renaissance -- Overview: twelfth-century renaissance -- Rise of universities -- Conflicting philosophies: humanism and scholasticism -- Abelard the intellectual -- Letters of Abelard and Heloise -- John of Salisbury and Christian humanism -- In defense of eloquence -- Human intellect is limited -- Vertical cathedrals: rise of gothic architecture -- Asia: Rise of China as a sea power -- Confucianism in twelfth-century China -- Chinese rituals in the twelfth century -- Samurai code of honor -- Example of Japanese storytelling -- Development of the Kamakura government -- Rise of Genghis Khan -- Temujin slays his brother -- Americas: Talking pottery: the Chimu Indians of Peru -- Demise of the Toltecs -- Rise and fall of the Anasazi Indians.…”