Abstract
Throughout time, love, sexuality, and marriage have mattered centrally in all of literature, and hence all of<br /> human existence. Although there seems to be an endless number of relevant guidebooks, counselors, and advisors<br /> who promise to help us navigate through the world of love, the real learning process in that regard begins within<br /> ourselves in direct confrontation with society or other individuals. Love is always dialogic. Late medieval (German)<br /> literature proves to be one of the most useful strategies in dealing with those powerful issues, perhaps surprisingly<br /> and certainly refreshingly. As this article illustrates through a close analysis of a sample of texts by three meaningful<br /> but also unusual poets, the study of those poems makes available a significant body of messages about human<br /> nature, and thus about virtues and vices. Love can hardly be imagined without some pain, struggle, and a sense<br /> of utopia, and these German poets, in close parallel with their European contemporaries, can thus be recognized as<br /> great inspirators for continuing the discourse on love even today.
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