Courtly Love Notes

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* stately love has been credited with both the civilization of the western area and the erosion of moral standards seen worldwide.
* Is it in fact the direct source of romanticist love seen today?
* It was initiative known in the middle ages as finamors (elegant love) or aristocratic love
* Tempted conjoin wo manpower and nuns to have adulterous (or regular) sex
* Knights were tempted into mortal sin all in the name of refined love
* Gave a vent for gallant men and women to express their dissatisfaction with the current state of marriage
* Some historians say it was a way to disempower women, others say it was a tool for women to control men
* The adaptation of helpless women in distress associated with well-bred love is a post Victorian interpretation
* In the nineteenth century cultured love was looked at as a set of rules for men. nineteenth century version idealized inanimate women (sleeping beauty)
* Earlier women in courtly love were not passive (contrast 19th cent.



)
* Ladies would bear as much as they had been rescued
* Women could reject their most adamant suitors; they had a lot of power
* Women are equal participants in courtly love with men
* When people think of courtly love they often imagine in in the transition stage to romantic love.
* Many superhero movies in our current society emulate ideals of medieval chivalry and courtly love
* Old courtly love chill out existed in the time of its revival, (new courtly love) causing clash in spite of appearance the period. (Alliterative Revival?)
* Courtly love=Amour courtios. The term first coined in 1881. Originally defined as the lovers worship of an idealized lady
* Every definition of courtly love is tainted by the definers personal interaction with love
* proterozoic courtship emerges from the poetry of troubadours
* European courtly love influenced by Islamic Spain which had an elegant courtly lifestyle...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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