Gerald A. Bond is Emeritus Professor of French and German at the University of Rochester.

"The Loving Subject views the impetus for the emergence of high-medieval secular society as an intense ideological controversy over desire and eloquence within a struggle for power and authority. Particularly for that, for his blazing and persuasive arguments, and for his accomplished and polished prose, we owe Bond a debt of gratitude." (Speculum) "This book fills a definite need, not solely in opening up to the general scholarly public the Latin literature of late eleventh-century France but even more in presenting this literature within the context of a major new argument about developments that took place in that time and place that have had a lasting effect on Western culture. . . . [It] represents an enormous amount of research in an ill-mapped territory-and an even greater amount of deep thought about that territory." (Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University.)

Gerald A. Bond is Emeritus Professor of French and German at the University of Rochester.

"The Loving Subject views the impetus for the emergence of high-medieval secular society as an intense ideological controversy over desire and eloquence within a struggle for power and authority. Particularly for that, for his blazing and persuasive arguments, and for his accomplished and polished prose, we owe Bond a debt of gratitude." (Speculum) "This book fills a definite need, not solely in opening up to the general scholarly public the Latin literature of late eleventh-century France but even more in presenting this literature within the context of a major new argument about developments that took place in that time and place that have had a lasting effect on Western culture. . . . [It] represents an enormous amount of research in an ill-mapped territory-and an even greater amount of deep thought about that territory." (Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University.)