TY  - JOUR
AU  - Raymond J. Cormier
PY  - 2024
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Mediaevistik
IS  - 1
VL  - 36
SN  - 2199-806X
TI  - Barbara H. Rosenwein, Love: A History in Five Fantasies. Cambridge and Medford, MA, 2022, x, 232 pp., 15 color illus.
DO  - 10.3726/med.2023.01.51
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1517779
N2  - “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.
ER  -