Two Late Medieval Love Treatises: Heloise's Art d'Amour and a Collection of Demandes d'Amour, edited by Leslie C. Brook, offers a critical edition of two significant 15th-century texts from British Library Royal MS 16 F 11. The first text, attributed to the renowned Heloise, is Art d'Amour, a prose treatise on the art of love, drawing from the tradition of Andreas Capellanus's De Amore. Here, Heloise is portrayed as an instructor on love, guiding a disciple through the complexities of courtly romance. The second text, Demandes d'Amour, is a collection of love-related questions or dilemmas, reflecting the medieval court's fascination with love debates and moral conundrums.

Brook provides detailed linguistic and literary analysis, offering insight into the social and cultural significance of these texts in the context of medieval France. Through these treatises, readers gain a deeper understanding of courtly love's role in medieval intellectual life, as well as the complexities of gender and morality within that framework.

This scholarly edition is essential for students and researchers of medieval French literature, courtly love traditions, and gender studies, bringing two lesser-known yet rich texts into the broader discussion of medieval love and its literary representation.