Violent Passions

Bonnie Wheeler teaches at Southern Methodist University, USA where she directs the Medieval Studies Program. She has edited and co-edited fourteen books, among them Listening to Heloise and Heloise and the Paraclete (forthcoming). She was founding editor of the journal Arthuriana and is series editor for two Palgrave Macmillan book series, The New Middle Ages and Arthurian and Courtly Cultures.

• Introduction * The Problem of Love * The Mad Lovers of the Ovidian Lais * Marriage and Amor * The Roman d'Eneas and the Erotics of Empire Building * "Making Love" in Béroul and Thomas's Tristan * The Magister Amoris and his Willful Lovers: Cligés and the Chevalier de la Charrete * Conclusion * Bibliography

"[Adam's] attempt to locate these romantic explorations of amor within the 12th-century's fascination with problematic love is laudable and instructive." - Encomia