PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture Notes - Mateship, Wiht
10 Apr 2014
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We have this idea of love in our culture and it is a requirement of a long-term mateship. In ancient rome, you married for economic and political reasons. Happiness and pleasure was not what marriage was about. Love was thought to be dangerous and doomed. During the middle to high ages, there was something special for the aristocrats--courtly love. An aristocrat woman would be approached by a young knight and he had a quest--to love someone. This was a time of a lot of romanticism. Shakespeare"s time (1500s)--writes about marriage and happiness but this was more of a fantasy at the time (the idea that love is doomed is still prevalent) Romantic era (late 1700s-1800s)--starting to focus on love as a positive thing, maybe a long term relationship based on love could work. But the idea that you had to marry based on love was not prevalent.
