Medievalists.net » The Art of Courtly Love http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 How to Tell if Your 12th-Century Lover is Just Not That Into You http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/14/how-to-tell-if-your-12th-century-lover-is-just-not-that-into-you/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/14/how-to-tell-if-your-12th-century-lover-is-just-not-that-into-you/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2015 03:58:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62535 In the twelfth century, courtly love was all the rage with the French nobility. To participate in this trendiest of trends, though, you actually needed to know the rules.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/14/how-to-tell-if-your-12th-century-lover-is-just-not-that-into-you/feed/ 0 Caught in Love’s Grip: Passion and Moral Agency in French Courtly Romance http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/caught-loves-grip-passion-moral-agency-french-courtly-romance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/caught-loves-grip-passion-moral-agency-french-courtly-romance/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:06:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51801 French royal courts in the late twelfth century were absolutely smitten with love. Troubadaours traveled from place to place reciting stories of knights and the ladies they wooed.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/caught-loves-grip-passion-moral-agency-french-courtly-romance/feed/ 0 The True Characters of Criseyde and of Diomede in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde: A Restoration of the Reputations of Two Misunderstood Characters Unjustly Maligned in Literary Criticism http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/08/the-true-characters-of-criseyde-and-of-diomede-in-chaucers-troilus-and-criseyde-a-restoration-of-the-reputations-of-two-misunderstood-characters-unjustly-maligned-in-literary-criticism/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/08/the-true-characters-of-criseyde-and-of-diomede-in-chaucers-troilus-and-criseyde-a-restoration-of-the-reputations-of-two-misunderstood-characters-unjustly-maligned-in-literary-criticism/#comments Sun, 09 Sep 2012 04:54:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35516 This is a defence of the characters of Criseyde and of Diomede based, inter alia, on a close textual analysis.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/08/the-true-characters-of-criseyde-and-of-diomede-in-chaucers-troilus-and-criseyde-a-restoration-of-the-reputations-of-two-misunderstood-characters-unjustly-maligned-in-literary-criticism/feed/ 0 Love, Marriage, and Happiness: Changing Systems of Desire in Fourteenth-Century England http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/14/love-marriageand-happiness-changing-systems-of-desire-in-fourteenth-century-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/14/love-marriageand-happiness-changing-systems-of-desire-in-fourteenth-century-england/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:39:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29299 It is my intention not only to explore the discourse of love and desire in the fourteenth century, but also to examine how the ideas have been altered from those present in the Anglo-Norman and Latin material that was written or widely read in twelfth-century England and what pressures and influences may have brought about these changes.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/14/love-marriageand-happiness-changing-systems-of-desire-in-fourteenth-century-england/feed/ 0 The science of love in the Middle Ages, the romantic period, and our own time http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/10/the-science-of-love-in-the-middle-ages-the-romantic-period-and-our-own-time/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/10/the-science-of-love-in-the-middle-ages-the-romantic-period-and-our-own-time/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:54:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28476 I begin with a number of fascinating and difficult questions. Why did man originally create, and why does he continue to create, works on the "science of love"?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/10/the-science-of-love-in-the-middle-ages-the-romantic-period-and-our-own-time/feed/ 0 Beyond Beatrice: from Love Poetry to a Poetry of Love http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/09/beyond-beatrice-from-love-poetry-to-a-poetry-of-love/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/09/beyond-beatrice-from-love-poetry-to-a-poetry-of-love/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:27:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=26267 Beyond Beatrice: from Love Poetry to a Poetry of Love By Brian Reynolds Paper given at the Fu Jen Fourth Annual Medieval Conference: Chivalry and Knighthood in Middle Ages (2003) Introduction: In this essay I shall consider how Dante combines elements from the Marian tradition with the conventions of courtly love in drawing together literary, […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/09/beyond-beatrice-from-love-poetry-to-a-poetry-of-love/feed/ 0 Clerics and Courtly Love in Andreas Capellanus’ The Art of Courtly Love and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/13/clerics-and-courtly-love-in-andreas-capellanus-the-art-of-courtly-love-and-chaucers-canterbury-tales/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/13/clerics-and-courtly-love-in-andreas-capellanus-the-art-of-courtly-love-and-chaucers-canterbury-tales/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:39:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=18308 In both The Canterbury Tales and The Art of Courtly Love Geoffrey Chaucer and Andreas Capellanus deal with various aspects of courtly love. In particular, both of them focus to some degree on the question of clerical celibacy.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/13/clerics-and-courtly-love-in-andreas-capellanus-the-art-of-courtly-love-and-chaucers-canterbury-tales/feed/ 0 The Concept of Courtly Love as an Impediment to the Understanding of Medieval Texts http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/30/the-concept-of-courtly-love-as-an-impediment-to-the-understanding-of-medieval-texts/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/30/the-concept-of-courtly-love-as-an-impediment-to-the-understanding-of-medieval-texts/#comments Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:12:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=11886 I have never been convinced that there was any such thing as what is usually called courtly love during the Middle Ages. However, it is obvious that courtly love does exist in modern scholarship and criticism, and that the idea appeals to a great many people today.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/30/the-concept-of-courtly-love-as-an-impediment-to-the-understanding-of-medieval-texts/feed/ 0 Get a Room: Private Space and Private People in Old French and Middle English Love Stories http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/06/get-a-room-private-space-and-private-people-in-old-french-and-middle-english-love-stories/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/06/get-a-room-private-space-and-private-people-in-old-french-and-middle-english-love-stories/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:07:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=10979 This study explores the way in which one circumstance of daily life in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries—the relative scarcity of private space—influenced the literature of courtly love.

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