Will the Real Andreas Capellanus Please come Forward?

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https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2022.24.11899

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Keywords: Andreas Capellanus, De amore, courtly love, humor, irony.

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Abstract

The time and place of composition of the medieval Latin treatise on love, De amore, and the identity of Andreas Capellanus (“Andrew the Chaplain”) to whom its authorship is attributed have long been a subject of controversy. There are essentially three hypotheses, each tied to a particular interpretation of the treatise. Following the rediscovery of the work by Gaston Paris in 1883, it was long thought that to have been written in the 1180s at the court of Champagne by a court chaplain at the behest of the countess Marie, an important patroness of courtly literature. Based on new diplomatic evidence and some of the manuscript rubrics, Alfred Karnein renewed the question in 1978 with the theory that the treatise was indeed written in the 1180s, but in Paris at the court of Philip II Augustus, and not to promote the courtly love ethic but to combat it. In 1994 Peter Dronke advanced the theory that Andreas Capellanus is a pseudonym designed to link an anonymous work with a legendary romance lover, André de Paris, and that the treatise was written in the 1230s in the Arts Faculty of the University of Paris as an elaborated erotic joke. Each of these hypotheses has its strengths and weaknesses, and so the question is likely to remain undecided.

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Author Biography

  • Don A. Monson, College of William & Mary / Kenyon College

    EDUCATION

    University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois . . . . . . . . . . .  1966-1969

    Ph.D.  in French (with honors), 1974

    1. A. in French, 1968

    Centre d'Etudes supérieures de Civilisation médiévale           1969-1970

         de l'Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France . . . . . .  1965-1966

    University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah . . . . . . . . . . .  1961-1965

    1. A. in French and Latin (cum laude), 1965

     

     

    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

    Professor Emeritus, College of William and Mary  . . . . . . .  2009-

    Professor of French, College of William and Mary . . . . . . .  1985-2009

    Associate Professor of French, College of William and Mary . .  1979-1985

    Assistant Professor of French, College of William and Mary . .  1976-1979

    Affiliated Scholar, Kenyon College . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2002-

    Visiting Professor of French, Kenyon College . . . . . . . . .  2000-2002

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Monson, D. A. (2022). Will the Real Andreas Capellanus Please come Forward?. Prometeica - Journal of Philosophy and Science, 24, 70-82. https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2022.24.11899
Received 2021-03-19
Accepted 2021-10-26
Published 2022-02-15