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Alexander appears to be caught between two systems, one that demands allegiance to his social and political rank and another that demands allegiance to the woman he loves and the dictates of fins amors. Aristotle, the great philosopher and Alexander’s master, chastises him for neglecting his country, his barons and his knights in favor of this foreign woman. In terms reminiscent of Enide’s comments to Erec, Aristotle accuses him of spending all his time with the Indian woman instead of recreating with his men.
The wise and all-knowing Aristotle (“qui tout savoit, Quanques droites clergie avoit,” Montaiglon and Raynaud 5: 247, v. 155-56), rebukes Alexander by saying: ‘Or vous puet on bien mener pestre Tout issi comme beste en pré. Trop avez le sens destempré, Quant por une meshince estrange Voz cuers si durement se change C’on n’i puet mesure trover. Je vous vueil proier et rouver A deporter de tel usage, 7 “It is good that love is lord and master when the most powerful man in the world is made so humble and obedient that he cares not for himself and thus forgets himself completely for his other.
When discussing the literary topos of courtly love, he approaches the subject with reservation, given that he is a historian and not a literary critic. Yet he justifies his attempt to read this literary genre by saying: Cette littérature fut reçue, sans quoi il n’en resterait rien…. Mais il y eut réception, et par conséquent jeu de reflets, double réfraction. Pour être écoutées, il fallait bien que ces œuvres fussent de quelque manière en rapport avec ce qui préoccupait les gens pour qui elles étaient produites, avec leur situation réelle.