What was C.S. Lewis’s 1936 study of medieval allegory called?

C.S. Lewis’s 1936 study of medieval allegory was called The Allegory of Love.

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition was published in 1936. It examines how medieval and Renaissance writers represented love, tracing literary traditions through works associated with authors including Ovid, Chrétien de Troyes, Dante, and Edmund Spenser. The book helped establish Lewis’s reputation as a serious literary scholar before his most famous popular works appeared.

Lewis’s academic writing often connected close textual analysis with broad historical interpretation. The Allegory of Love is not a novel and is not primarily a work of Christian apologetics, although Lewis’s later intellectual and religious concerns can make the boundaries seem blurred to modern readers. It is best identified as a study of literary history and medieval imaginative conventions.