Unabridged Audiobook
i think that the content was good and I especially appreciated the historical surveys. the review of courtly love and view of women was excellent although i found the summary and conclusions being somewhat weak and ill thought through and almost cliche "the gentleman wants a woman to be whatever she wants to be." really? u go thru an interesting discussion about how courtly love was begun by eleanor of aquitaine and possibly anti-church and that's how u end the section? it's like putting a cherry on on whipped cream when u arent sure what u served is really dessert. so i think that section was incredibly strong but ended weakly. i think that the book could be strengthened by a more coherent framework that ends to an overall vision held by the authors of being a gentleman rather than only refrains from the past. i kept wanting him to share more about his own synthesis of prior scholars rather than just review of them.
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