Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
The Allegory of Love
Courtly love, allegorical poetry, the medieval European literary tradition — Lewis's scholarly masterpiece on the literary form that organised European love poetry from the troubadours to Spenser
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Allegory of Love (Mature) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The Allegory of Love
The long historical arc from twelfth-century troubadours through sixteenth-century Spenser.
Space
The Allegory of Love
Medieval European literary-cultural space — Provence, Northern France, England, Italy.
Matter
The Allegory of Love
The material texts — manuscripts, early printings — through which the tradition was transmitted.
Observer
The Allegory of Love
Lewis as philological-historical scholar; the medieval-Renaissance reading public the works addressed.
Energy
The Allegory of Love
The cultural-literary energies that produced courtly love and its allegorical expressions.
Information
The Allegory of Love
The literary-cultural content of the works treated; the historical-cultural analysis of "courtly love" as a phenomenon.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Lewis's "courtly love" thesis has been contested by subsequent medievalists (Donaldson, Robertson) who argue it imposes a unified concept on what was actually a more varied literary phenomenon. The work's broader literary-historical achievement is uncontested.