- courtly love
- noun(Middle Ages) a highly conventionalized code of conduct for lovers• Topics: ↑Middle Ages, ↑Dark Ages• Hypernyms: ↑code of conduct, ↑code of behavior
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Courtly love — God Speed! by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1900: a late Victorian view of a lady giving a favor to a knight about to do battle Courtly love was a medieval European conception of nobly and chivalrously expressing love and admiration.[1] Generally,… … Wikipedia
courtly love — The term courtly love, generally used to describe a group of literary conventions common in western Europe in the later medieval period, was in fact never used in the Middle Ages. It was coined by the scholar Gaston Paris in 1883 to denote an… … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
courtly love — a highly stylized code of behavior popular chiefly from the 12th to the 14th century that prescribed the rules of conduct between lovers, advocating idealized but illicit love, and which fostered an extensive medieval literature based on this… … Universalium
Courtly Love — A term first used by Gaston Paris in 1883 article to describe the culture of love and system of love and adoration developed in Northern France during the late 12th century. Under this system, the lover, who pursued his illicit and passionate… … Medieval glossary
Courtly love — Modern term popularised by C. S. Lewis to describe the various kinds of love between man and woman described in the works of troubadours and others between the 11c and the 13c. The range of feeling ran from the dutiful respect owed a lord s wife … Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
courtly love — noun a highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman … English new terms dictionary
courtly love — court′ly love′ n. lit. a highly stylized code of conduct between lovers, often the subject of medieval literature • Etymology: 1895–1900 … From formal English to slang
courtly love — /kɔtli ˈlʌv/ (say kawtlee luv) noun a medieval concept originating in the courts of southern France, which idealised illicit love, prescribed a highly conventionalised code of conduct for lovers, and gave rise to an extensive literature on the… …
courtly love — noun Date: 1702 a late medieval conventionalized code prescribing conduct and emotions of ladies and their lovers … New Collegiate Dictionary
courtly love — куртуазная любовь … Термины гендерных исследований
