Medieval Love-Fashioning: Configurations of Fin’amor in European Literature, 1100-1485

Medieval Love-Fashioning examines the topic of fin’amor, ＂gentle love＂, in poetry, verse romances, and prose from the European High and Late Middle Ages.

Anders Cullhed (b. 1951) is a professor emeritus in Literary Studies, Stockholm University, a literary critic, and a translator. He has published widely on a rich gamut of topics in premodern literature. His main works remain Quevedo: El instante poético (Zaragoza, 2005), The Shadow of Creusa: Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin Literature (Berlin, 2015), and a biography of Dante Alighieri (published in Swedish, Stockholm 2021). Among the books he has edited/co-edited are True Lies Worldwide? Fiction in Global Context (Berlin, 2014), Pangs of Love and Longing: Configurations of Desire in Premodern Literature (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014), and Fiction and Figuration in High and Late Medieval Literatur (Rome, 2016). Cullhed was the Swedish initiator and leader of The Northern European Dante Network and served as the President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities between 2014 and 2020.