MESTER, UNIV CALIFORNIA, ISSN: 0160-2764, UNITED STATES The Conventions of Courtly Love SANKO PEREZ UCLA "Courlty Love" is conventionally associated with Chivalry. The ideas of "Courtly Love" were probably first expressed in the love lyrics of the 11th...
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MESTER, UNIV CALIFORNIA, ISSN: 0160-2764, UNITED STATES The Conventions of Courtly Love SANKO PEREZ UCLA "Courlty Love" is conventionally associated with Chivalry. The ideas of "Courtly Love" were probably first expressed in the love lyrics of the 11th century Troubadours of southern France, there may also be ties to Ara- bic love literature. Courtly Love was eventuially codified and defined in the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Andreas Capellanus (Andrew the Chap- lain) in his Latin text The Art of Courtly Love (c.1174). Scholars still do not agree as to whether any individuals ever accepted Courtly Love as a serious way of life or it was merely a court game or pleasant literary convention. It seems that lovers were tried and judged under the rules of Courtly Love in Eleanor of Aquitaine’s court, but the seriousness of the trials is certainly in question. Some of the cases were more hypothetical proofs or examples of how a lover should behave than cases involving the actions of actu
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