%0 Journal Article
%A Raymond J. Cormier
%D 2024
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%J Mediaevistik
%@ 2199-806X
%N 1
%V 36
%T Barbara H. Rosenwein, Love: A History in Five Fantasies. Cambridge and Medford, MA, 2022, x, 232 pp., 15 color illus.
%R 10.3726/med.2023.01.51
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1517779
%X “A learned guide through the labyrinth of love” is how this delightful volume is signaled by the publisher. That it is, indeed, like love itself, a “richly-hued tapestry” (8). Five sections here include: “Like-minded love” – or friendship – starts us off, then comes “love’s transcendence” or love of God. “Love as freedom” vs. “obligation” – marriage and/or long-term sexual relationships follows, and then the fantasy of “true love” as “obsessive” and unrequited, and, finally, “insatiable” and “roaming” love completes the five chapters.