Courtship and Courtliness
Author: Catherine Bates
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 812
ISBN-13:
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A History of Courtship
Author: Tania O'Donnell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1510708707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTania O’Donnell takes the reader on a journey from medieval Courtly Love, through to the sexual license of the Restoration, and Victorian propriety. Pick up historical ‘dating tips,’ from how to court (or be courted), write romantic love letters, give and receive gifts, propose and pose as a sighing swain. The book takes a historical approach to the problem of finding a mate, with case studies of classic romantic mistakes and plenty of unusual tales. In the 14th century young men tried to impress the ladies with their footwear, donning shoes with pointed toes so long that they had to be secured with whalebone—presumably because size mattered! A History of Courtship is an entertaining and enlightening look at seduction over the centuries.
Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality
Author: James A. Schultz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006-08-15
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0226740897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the great achievements of the Middle Ages, Europe’s courtly culture gave the world the tournament, the festival, the knighting ceremony, and also courtly love. But courtly love has strangely been ignored by historians of sexuality. With Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality, James Schultz corrects this oversight with careful analysis of key courtly texts of the medieval German literary tradition. Courtly love, Schultz finds, was provoked not by the biological and intrinsic factors that play such a large role in our contemporary thinking about sexuality—sex difference or desire—but by extrinsic signs of class: bodies that were visibly noble and behaviors that represented exemplary courtliness. Individuals became “subjects” of courtly love only to the extent that their love took the shape of certain courtly roles such as singer, lady, or knight. They hoped not only for physical union but also for the social distinction that comes from realizing these roles to perfection. To an extraordinary extent, courtly love represented the love of courtliness—the eroticization of noble status and the courtly culture that celebrated noble power and refinement
The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature
Author: Catherine Bates
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-06-18
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0521414806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rhetoric of Courtship is about the literature of the Elizabethan period with a particular focus on the literature of the court. This book considers how writers and courtiers related to Elizabeth I within a system of patronage and how they portrayed this relationship in fictional courtship of poetry and prose.
The Origins of Courtliness
Author: C. Stephen Jaeger
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010-08-03
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0812200896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book Argues that the origins of courtliness lie in the German courts, their courtier class, and the education for court service in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
Courtship in Shakespeare
Author: William G. Meader
Publisher:
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781258015299
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Author: William Granville Meader
Publisher:
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Art of Courtly Love
Author: Andreas (Capellanus.)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780231073059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe social system of 'courtly love' soon spread after becoming popularized by the troubadours of southern France in the twelfth century. This book codifies life at Queen Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174 into "one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explain the secret of a civilization."
Courtly Love in the Canterbury Tales
Author: Cindy Härcher
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2012-05-31
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 3656199434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Bayreuth, language: English, abstract: Courtly love embraces a beautiful lady, married or unobtainable, who was the object of love for a knight. In general courtly love was secret and between man and woman of noble status and it was not practiced between husbands and wives. Such relationships did not exist in real medieval life. Marriages were mostly arranged and women were seen as property to their husbands. It was more an "available fiction which informed the cultural climate, much as the wider conventions of chivalry did" (Rudd 2001:33). This is a relatively vague definition of the topic of courtly love and it only summarizes the most important points. This paper will work out the origins and the meaning of courtly love more intensive, watching its first origins and its appearance in the Romance of the Rose, and it will mention and describe every important characteristic. These characteristics will be a guideline to show Chaucer's treatment of the topic in his work The Canterbury Tales. Elements of courtly love appear in the Prologue, the Knight's Tale, the Merchant's Tale, and in the Franklin's Tale. These elements will be shown and explained. Finally a conclusion will summarize the most important points.
The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage - Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and Giving Full Details Regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arra
Author: G R M Devereux
Publisher:
Published: 2023-06-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781805478249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe word Courtship has an old-world sound about it, and carries the mind back to the statelier manners of bygone days. Nowadays we have no leisure for courtly greetings and elaborately-turned compliments. We are slackening many of the old bonds, breaking down some of the old restraint, and, though it will seem treason to members of a past generation to say it, we are, let us hope, arriving at a less artificial state of things. During the march of civilisation Marriage and the circumstances that lead up to it have undergone many and wonderful changes, though the deepseated fundamental idea of having a mate has remained unaltered in essence. Just as the savage of to-day steals or fights for his dusky bride, so did our own rude forefathers of past ages look to rapine and the sword as the natural means of procuring the mate who was to minister to their joys and necessities.
