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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:33 pm    Post subject: Courtly Love Reply with quote
What are some good book on this subject?

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Woo-er. Hm, there's a book on King Arthur by Kevin Crossley-Holland, and it mentions Courtly Love in there. It's called "The King Who Was And Will Be", and I found it interesting, but you might find it a bit limited as it's mostly about Arthur. But that's all I can think of, sorry.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Are there any other books? i know i could romance novels, but i'm not quite sure those way are right.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Personally I wouldn't go for Crossely-Holland. Courtly love didn't stick in my head from those books.

I'm sure there must be loads--try to find stuff about Eleanor of Aquitaine, who basically propelled courtly love into society with her romantic court. Look up stuff on troubadours as well. It's a bit of an obscure topic, but I know there's stuff out there. Good luck!
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I had some papers from World Lit. on courtly love, but seeing as the school year ended, I might have pitched them. I'll have to look around.

Otherwise, I'm very good at using google:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtly_love
http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl513/courtly/courtly.htm
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/chivalry.html

That last link has the codes/rules of courtly love, which should really help you out through your writing. Those rules will dictate a lot of the action.

I'd suggest some fiction to you, but it's all rough reading and I don't remember titles.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks alot.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
any one esle got anythings for me to use?

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I had to do a whole load of research on this for my English Lit exam in Chaucer - there's a whole code with definate rules on what to do and what not to do.

I'll see if I can find the websites I used...

http://condor.depaul.edu/~dsimpson/tlove/courtlylove.html
Hhhmmm Claudette already posted the main one I used
but there are lots of different references to stories on this one - http://condor.depaul.edu/~dsimpson/tlove/courtlylove.html

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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