Courtly Love

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What are some good book on this subject?
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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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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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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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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/engl51 ... ourtly.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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Thanks alot.
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any one esle got anythings for me to use?
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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/tlov ... ylove.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/tlov ... ylove.html

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thanks alot.
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~Elizzabeth Grey of Addicting Posion



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