RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Philia, Courtly Love, Renaissance Humanism
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The problem of love in a secular world. The two sides of the christian view - the sanctification of love and humility - have become unstuck. The middle ages began with the collapse of the roman empire in the 5th century and ended around the 15th century, merging with the renaissance. The renaissance was a period of the flourishing of knowledge and art which began in. It was partly inspired by the rediscovery of ancient thought (plato, aristotle), though certainly ___ Great lovers courtly love and the troubadours: at the end of the 12th century, musicians began to set to music songs about love for women - purely human love began to be celebrated. Troubadours helped inspire great lovers" in real life and in literature. Born into a wealthy family and after surviving an illness, he publicly vowed to poverty and shamed his father in public. Francis didn"t want to reject the world but live more closely in it.
