Category
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Le Roman de la Rose
medieval French poem
courtly love
medieval European literary conception of love

Erec and Enide
literary work by Chrétien de Troyes

Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
12th-century Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes

Cligès
Cligès (also Cligés) is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. It is the second of his five Arthurian romances; Erec and Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. The poem tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice.

Aucassin and Nicolette
Old French poem from the 12th/13th century

Prose Tristan
13th-century French Arthurian romance

Confessio Amantis
1389 poem written by John Gower

De amore
Andreas Capellanus's treatise
Pontus and Sidonia
anonymous French romance composed between 1390 and 1425