Courtly Love key info

Main Ideas of Courtly Love

• Love at first sight

• Pains of love

• Overcoming obstacles

• Secrecy and love affairs

   
  

• courting and wooing someone

• giving of love tokens and gifts e.g trinkets, flowers, poetry

• men being gentlemen, chivalrous

   

  Key Points

• Rooted in 12^th century

• Alternatively known as ‘fin amor’

• An aristocratic pastime

• Originated in France – spread across Europe

• Troubadours - performers of poetry

Examples for wider reading:

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Millers Tale (courtly love and the subversion of it against the traditional values)

‘Fil with this yonge wyf to rage and pleye, / Whil…