Eros and Monogamy: A Puritan Marriage

Sharing Options

“This antithesis, if once understood, explains many things in the history of sentiment, and many differences, noticeable to the present day, between the Protestant and the Catholic parts of Europe. It explains why the conversion of courtly love into romantic monogamous love was so largely the work of English, and even of Puritan, poets” (C.S. Lewis, Selected Literary Essays, p. 117).

Subscribe
Notify of
guest
0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments