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Courtly love and women in the Middle Age
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MIDDLE AGE
Courtly love• Origin: the late
11th century bythetroubadours.
• This come fromthe Provence(southerFrance)
• AIM: Redefine traditionalChristian ideals of love, marriage, manhood, virtue, feminity.
• Under thesponsorshipof powerfulnobles likeEleonor of Aquitaineand Marie Champagne…
• …theirinfluencegraduallyspread throughoutFrance, England and Germany.
• By the middle of the 13th century, the troubadourphilosophy becomepracticallyinstitutionalizedthroughout thecourts of Europe, and “fine love” hadbecome the basisfor a glamorous and exciting new styleof life.
• Courtlylove wascharazterized by 5 mainattributes. In essence, therelationship was:
• Aristocratic: courtlylove waspracticed bynoble lordsand ladies.
• Ritualistic: The lady wasthe constantrecipient of songs, poems, bouquets, sweet favoursand ceremonial gestures. Shejust need toreturn a short of approvald, and after all, she was theexalted“domina”.
• Secret: courtly loverswere pledgedto strictsecrecy. Theloverscomposed a universe unto themselves.
• Adulterous: “Fine love” wasextramarital. Lovers escape from the routinesof noble marriage, and exalted theircarnal relationship.
• Literary: as a subject and theme in imaginativeliterature.
• Click on the video to listen a troubadour lovesonghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk1W22yHLJQ&feature=related
The women in the MiddleAge
• The femalemodel beautyand thesituation of women in theMiddle Agewas verydifferent.
• The femalemodel beauty: beautiful, pure, thesymbol of humanwisdom and perfection, without mencouldn¡tascend toheaven…
• He have as exampleDante’sBeatrice…
• …and Petrarch’sLaura.
• But the real position of women in Middle Agewasdifferent…
• Because theywereconsiderinferior and underestimated..
… impures and behind men…
• …and dominatedby men toorder womento do as theywished.
• So the differencebetween thebeauty model and the real womenwas verycontroversial and hypocritical.
• Click on thevideo to see aninterestingreport aboutimportantwomen figures in the MiddleAgehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5qRplq2WAk&feature=related
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