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COURTLY LOVE
The Ideal of Pure Love
LOVE DEFINED:
“a certain inborn suffering derived from the signt of
and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the
opposite sex.”
--Andreas Capellanus
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!
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.
COURTLY LOVE INVOLVED
Arranged marriages
Paramours
Unrequited love
(unreturned)
Very high emotions
sometimes.
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
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