What is the name of C.S. Lewis’s 1936 literary study of medieval allegory?

The Allegory of Love is C.S. Lewis’s 1936 literary study of medieval and Renaissance ideas about courtly love and allegorical literature. Its full title is The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition.

The book examines works and traditions associated with writers such as Ovid, Chrétien de Troyes, and Edmund Spenser. Lewis argues that literary ideas about love developed through recognizable historical traditions rather than appearing as isolated inventions.

The study helped establish Lewis’s reputation as a serious literary scholar before his popular Christian books and Narnia novels made him internationally famous. It should not be confused with The Discarded Image, his later study of the medieval worldview, or A Preface to Paradise Lost, his 1942 book on Milton.