I am copying the handouts from today’s class below:
\nRules of Love
\nThe following set of rules is based on the De Amore of Andreas Capellanus, as adapted in Appendix 1 of Ann S. Haskell’s A Middle English Anthology (Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1985). To find out more about Andreas Capellanus, click here.
\n1. Marriage should not be a deterrent to love.
\n2. Love cannot exist in the individual who cannot be jealous.
\n3. A double love cannot obligate an individual.
\n4. Love constantly waxes and wanes.
\n5. That which is not given freely by the object of one’s love loses its savor.
\n6. It is necessary for a male to reach the age of maturity in order to love.
\n7. A lover must observe a two-year widowhood after his beloved’s death.
\n8. Only the most urgent circumstances should deprive one of love.
\n9. Only the insistence of love can motivate one to love.
\n10. Love cannot coexist with avarice.
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