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Episode 278: Courtly Love and the court of Marie of Champagne

2025/2/12
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Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
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This chapter explores the origins of courtly love, contrasting it with the practicalities of medieval marriages. It examines how courtly love, celebrated in literature, emphasized longing, suffering, and devotion, often outside of marriage, and became linked to chivalry.
  • Courtly love emerged as an alternative to arranged marriages.
  • It glorified longing, suffering, and devotion.
  • Courtly love became associated with chivalry, adding a code of conduct beyond warfare for knights.

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In this episode we look at the history of courtly love at the court of Marie of Champagne. Happy Valentine's and Galentine's Day friends.

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