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COURTLY LOVE
The Ideal of Pure Love
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LOVE DEFINED:
“a certain inborn suffering derived from the signt of
and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the
opposite sex.”
--Andreas Capellanus
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ORIGINS OF COURTLY LOVE
Some people think it came from the matriarchal
society of the Celtic people
The Celts worshipped goddesses;
Women were the superior gender
That’s why the woman is so exalted in courtly love!
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The woman was put on
a pedestal—she was the
“beloved.”
The man or “lover”
spent his time serving
his beloved and wasting
away thinking about her.
COURTLY LOVE WAS VERY IDEALISTIC.
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COURTLY LOVE INVOLVED
Arranged marriages
Paramours
Unrequited love
(unreturned)
Very high emotions
sometimes.
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COURTLY LOVE WAS VIEWED AS AN ART WITH RULES
When a lover dies, a widowhood of two years is required for
the survivor.
Every act of the lover ends in the thought of his beloved.
A true lover considers nothing good unless he thinks it will
please his lover.
Nothing forbids one woman being loved by two men or one
man by two women.
**See “31 Rules for Lovers” by Andreaus Cappelanus