Courtly love (Occitan: fin'amor; French: amour courtois [amuʁ kuʁtwa]) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry. Medieval literature is filled …

Courtly love, a highly conventionalized code that prescribed the behavior of women of the nobility and their lovers during the later Middle Ages. It was also the theme of an extensive medieval …

Jul 6, 2023 · Courtly love is a medieval concept that romanticizes an idealized and often unattainable form of love, characterized by devotion, chivalry, and poetic expressions of …

Apr 3, 2019 · Courtly Love (Amour Courtois) refers to an innovative literary genre of poetry of the High Middle Ages (1000-1300 CE) which elevated the position of women in society and …

Courtly love, however, is especially dependent on the forms of speech, since not only is every lover a poet, but the main characteristics of the courtly lover -- his courtesy, humility, and …

C. S. Lewis famously defined courtly love as "Humility, Courtesy, Adultery, and the Religion of Love." [C.S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition. London, 1936 (rpt. …

authors have unanimously realized that the consummation of courtly love would mean adultery. The contemporaries did not present it in that light, but rather claimed an inherent right of the …

Courtly love was a medieval European conception of ennobling love which found its genesis in the ducal and princely courts in regions of present-day southern France at the end of the eleventh …

courtly love, Late-medieval code that prescribed the highly conventionalized behaviour and emotions of aristocratic ladies and their lovers. It was the theme of an extensive literature that …

The term "Courtly Love" ("l'amour courtois") was coined by Gaston Paris in 1883 (in the journal Romania), so the first problem is that we tend to let the Victorians define it for us. The terms …