Meaning Of The Word Courtly love
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Courtly love Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Courtly love?
courtly love in American English
noun: 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 tradition courtly love in British English noun: a tradition represented in Western European literature between the 12th and the 14th centuries, idealizing love between a knight and a revered (usually married) lady |
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