The Art of Courtly Love

8 best books like The Art of Courtly Love (Andreas Capellanus): The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse, They Called Us Enemy, Leviathan, The Lais of Marie de France, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart, Mooncop

The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

Author	Eamon Duffy
ISBN	0300108281

This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented...

The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

Author	Pierre Abélard
ISBN	0140448993

The story of the relationship between Abélard and Héloïse is one of the world’s most celebrated and tragic love affairs. It is told through the letters of Peter Abélard, a French philosopher and one of the greatest logicians of the twelfth century, and of his gifted pupil Héloïse. Through their...

They Called Us Enemy

Author	George Takei
ISBN	1603094504

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.

Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...

Leviathan

Author	Thomas Hobbes
ISBN	0140431950

'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'

Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign...

The Lais of Marie de France

Author	Marie de France
ISBN	0140447598

This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of her but she was probably the Abbess of the abbey at Shaftesbury in the late 12th century, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet and hence the half-sister of Henry II of England. It was to a king, and...

The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance

Author	J.R. Hale
ISBN	0689122004

Read this for a history of Early Modern Europe course, and found it to be interesting but very much an overview of something I already have a decent idea of . Hale is synthesizing a lot of information here, and because of that there are just some points where the book gets borderline unreadable for a few pages....

Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart

Author	Chrétien de Troyes
ISBN	0300071213

lancelot is a damsel in distress

lancelot in the tower: oh woe, my life sucks, i'm stuck here forever
the maiden: yo, lancelot!
lancelot: i will never be free. nobody knows i'm here. alas.
the maiden: seriously dude i'm right here
lancelot: i wish i was dead
the maiden:...

Mooncop

Author	Tom Gauld
ISBN	1770462546

"Living on the moon . . . Whatever were we thinking? . . . It seems so silly now."

The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs...