She was not familiar with the ways of courtly love.
The tradition of courtly love, in which he had doubtless been reared, called for the woman to be aloof and for the man to beg for meetings.
The rule in courtly love was to fall in love with a lady who was married to someone else.
As His Excellency said, this Simon comes out of a world shaped by courtly love," Sophia answered.
Chretien's Conte de la charrette is a clear rendering of the idea that love shall be absolute, and hesitate at nothing; it is an example of courtly love carried to its furthest imagined conclusions.
And at these courts, rather than in Languedoc, courtly love encountered a new passionate current, and found the tales which were to form its chief vehicle.
And one or two decades later, a request from the great Countess Marie de Champagne led Chretien de Troies, as we have seen, to recast other Breton tales in a manner somewhat transformed with thoughts of courtly love.
These rules were exemplified in the imaginative literature of courtly love.
Thereupon the Queen in an outburst of enthusiasm truly Felibrean invokes the God of Love, the God that slew Dido, and speaks in the spirit of the days of courtly love, "O thou God of Love, hearken unto me.
But they did more, being votaries of courtly love.
Nevertheless the romantic narratives of courtly love in the latter are mediaeval creations.
Had not the troubadours developed their theory of courtly love, with its influence upon human nature, we cannot say what course early Italian literature might have run.
Raimbaut fell in love with Beatrice, the sister of the marquis, an intimacy which proceeded upon the regular lines of courtly love.
The lady then replies in her own Genoese dialect: she knows nothing of the conventions of courtly love, and informs the troubadour that her husband is a better man than he and that she will have nothing to do with him.
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