HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Courtly Love
4 Apr 2018
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The aristocratic courts of the 12th c. developed a particular set of cultural tropes around gender and class performance that were to have an incredibly long afterlife in. Romance becomes distinct from latin around 800, separates into romance languages in the late 12th c. First vernacular literature composed in occitan/proven al (and to a lesser extent old. Worship and desire for an unattained beloved. Experiencing impossible love is supposed to ennoble/improve the lover. Conceit that the male lover is the servant or subordinate of female beloved.
