Category: Courtly Love

My subject is courtly love, that strange doctrine of chivalric courtship that fixed the vocabulary and defined the experience of lovers in our culture from the latter Middle Ages until almost our own day. Some of its traces still survive — or at least they do in the old Andy Hardy movies. if you are…

On the one hand, taking Romeo Montague, it should not be possible to establish the archetype character without Juliet. This happens basically because as seen before, he is a Petrarchan lover and Juliet is the religion in his eyes. So one character complements the other one. With both, it can be seen as courtly love,…

Write about landscape and/or architecture. The landscape of Hero and Leander is integral to driving the action of the story; without the vast expanse of sea, there would be no illusion of courtly love, no heroic bravery of the tumultuous sea, and no reason for this narrative to exist. This essay aims to examine the…

Within Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Knights Tale, and The Millers Tale each give a different account of a specific view of love and marriage. Each tale in The Canterbury Tales is a narrative on a specific human personality type. In The Knights Tale, and The Millers Tale particularly, each narrative concerns a specific level…

My subject is courtly love, that strange doctrine of chivalric courtship that fixed the vocabulary and defined the experience of lovers in our culture from the latter Middle Ages until almost our own day. Some of its traces still survive — or at least they do in the old Andy Hardy movies. if you are…

Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare in the 1590s which was performed at the Globe theatre. It explores two lovers who come from feuding families and their lives together are controlled by fate. The idea of fate was very prevalent at this time in Tudor England, with many rich families paying…