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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Courtly love"”.
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Medieval Courtly Love: The Links between Courtly Love, Christianity, and the Roles of Women in Tennyson and Morris.
<p>The art of courtly love is difficult to pinpoint because there are many facets that extend into different areas. In the Pre-Raphaelite and Medieval periods, love was more formulated with rules, moral standards, and codes. Courtly love is often seen as the "love" practiced by kings, queens, and …
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Courtship, Loe, and Marriage in Othello: Shakespeare's Mockery of Courtly Love
… are several critics who focus on the role of love and the marital relationships that are also important in terms of interpreting the actions of key characters. Carol Thomas Neely, Maurice Charney, and several other literary critics have focused primarily on the role of marriage and love in …
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Forbidden Love: The Arabic Influence on the Courtly Love Poetry of Medieval Europe
… poets were themselves influenced by the Arabian love poetry of Spain during the Islamic caliphate. The theme of forbidden love graces the pages of many of the courtly love tales of chivalry that came out of medieval Europe. The Iberian Peninsula, the meeting point of France and Spain (the …
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The Politics of Anti -Courtly Love Poetry: Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Verse Miscellanies
… the late Elizabethan court. Yet when these anti-courtly love poems gained popularity in the early seventeenth century, collectors must have overlooked their original politics. For they regularly gathered these poems in manuscript verse miscellanies among verses that attack not Elizabeth's court …
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Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Couples
… under which to subsume various manifestations of love in his works. Research has been devoted particularly to the question of Wolfram's compliance with or rejection of the precepts of courtly love. In support of various arguments a selection of textual evidence has been advanced, frequently mixing …
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Women Troubadours in Southern France
… and the troubadour that debate the subject of love, and we will include the following trobairitz tensons in this paper: Alamanda, Isabella, Garsenda, Lombarda and Maria de Ventadorn. We will discuss the thematic elements these five tensons share. Scholars such as Pierre Bec, Peter Dronke and …
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The Dissonant History of Tristan and Isolde
… version to a post-feudal rendition infused with courtly love doctrines and notions of Christian love. It examines the early versions of the story by Béroul and Gottfried von Strassburg and discusses the shift in the portrayal of the relationship between Tristan and Isolde from one that decries …
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<i>Paradise Lost</i> and the Medieval Tradition
… Milton responded to such Medieval concepts as courtly love and salvation theory and demonstrates how Milton elaborates on, corrects, or repudiates Medieval literary and theological notions. In doing so, Milton has not only created the great English epic that he envisioned; he has produced a …
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Flattery as a Concern in Three Selected Works of Geoggrey Chaucer
… eloquence, heroics, science, court flattery, courtly love, domesticity, dreams, scholarship, authority, antifeminism, patient humility and rural hullabaloo, there is scarcely a Chaucerian topic that is excluded from its purview and its criticism." But along with the comic, mock—heroic style, …
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"This stage of woe" : the petrarchanism of Mary Wroth
… which comments on and contributes to English love poetry. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is addressed from a female lover to a male beloved, and this thesis discusses the implications of this unusual Petrarchan gender configuration .It explores the ways in which Wroth's Pamphilia encounters, is …
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„Hin mætasta í öllum kurteisra kvenna kvenskum.“ Konur og hirðleg ást í ljóðsögum Marie de France
… fékk síðar á sig heitið ástin við hirðina (e. courtly love), en fyrir þessa tegund ástar skiptir stéttaskiptingin miklu máli, enda kom hún í veg fyrir að eitthvað yrði raunverulega úr því daðurslega sambandi sem myndaðist í leiknum. Í sögum Marie de France er þó oft vikið frá þessum reglum, þar …
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Poems of Debate and Praise: Women as Published Authors in Sixteenth-Century France
… known. In poetic exchanges discussing romantic love, some women not only rejected the male suitor but encouraged him to adopt a more reasonable perspective on life after rejection, thus dispelling the idea of the “belle dame sans merci” and introducing the notion of individualized life in love …
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The Theatre of Anon: Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Woolf, and the Performance of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King
… of its members. Valor in combat and devotion in courtly love, chivalry's two chief expressions, are the basis of Arthur's knightly code, which has influenced British national character and identity from the country's founding. Arthur reached his Anglophone apotheosis in the nineteenth-century's …
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Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century
… for the first time, a confluence of literary love traditions that have previously existed independently across multiple centuries, nations and languages. First, I consider Ovid and the influence of the witty, Ovidian elegy love tradition as practiced by Christopher Marlowe and John Donne. Then …
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An Almost Threesome: Erotic Love Triangles and Authorial Choice in Malory’s Le Morte D’ Arthur
… and truest friend, but also be a true and ideal lover for Guenevere. This deep sense of friendship and comraderie between Lancelot and his king is also reflected in nearly all of the relationships between Arthur’s knights; which is, similar to de Troyes a very important component of the romances …