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PRONUNCIATION OF COURTLY LOVE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COURTLY LOVE

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Courtly love is a noun.
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WHAT DOES COURTLY LOVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Courtly love

Courtly love was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry. Medieval literature is filled with examples of knights setting out on adventures and performing various services for ladies because of their “courtly love.” This kind of love is originally a literary fiction created for the entertainment of the nobility, but as time passed, these ideas about love changed and attracted a larger audience. In the high Middle Ages a “game of love” developed around these ideas as a set of social practices. "Loving nobly" was considered to be an enriching and improving practice. Courtly love began in the ducal and princely courts of Aquitaine, Provence, Champagne, ducal Burgundy and the Norman Kingdom of Sicily at the end of the eleventh century. In essence, courtly love was an experience between erotic desire and spiritual attainment that now seems contradictory as "a love at once illicit and morally elevating, passionate and disciplined, humiliating and exalting, human and transcendent".

Definition of courtly love in the English dictionary

The definition of courtly love in the dictionary is a tradition represented in Western European literature between the 12th and the 14th centuries, idealizing love between a knight and a revered lady.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COURTLY LOVE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE COURTLY LOVE

calf love
clove
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in love
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lad´s love
love
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mother love
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romantic love
self-love
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Synonyms and antonyms of courtly love in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «courtly love» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COURTLY LOVE

Find out the translation of courtly love to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of courtly love from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «courtly love» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

宫廷爱情
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

amor cortés
570 millions of speakers

English

courtly love
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सभ्य प्यार
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الحب مجامل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

куртуазной любви
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

amor cortês
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সৌজন্যে প্রেম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´amour courtois
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cinta kasih
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

höfischen Liebe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

宮廷の愛
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공손한 사랑
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Katresnan sing sopan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tình yêu phong nhã
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீதிமன்றம் அன்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विनम्र प्रेम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Mahkeme aşkı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

amor cortese
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

miłość dworska
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

куртуазної любові
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dragoste de curte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ευγενικός αγάπη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hoofse liefde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hövisk kärlek
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

høvisk kjærlighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of courtly love

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COURTLY LOVE»

The term «courtly love» is regularly used and occupies the 86.910 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COURTLY LOVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about courtly love

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COURTLY LOVE»

Discover the use of courtly love in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to courtly love and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation
For several hundred years courtly love, with its emphasis on adultery, carnal pleasures, and the power of the feminine, dominated European culture despite its flouting of conventional Christian morality.
Jean Markale, 2000
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Rethinking Chivalry and Courtly Love
In addition to examining the history of chivalry and courtly love, this remarkable volume looks at their enduring legacy—not just in popular media but in molding our present-day concepts of human rights, professional ethics, military ...
Jennifer G. Wollock, 2011
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Medieval Imagination: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Courtly Love
Kelly's documentation is a fresh and useful contribution to the interpretation of this too-often neglected period.The flower of medieval French culture, the poetry of courtly love, is examined with an unprecedented thoroughness in this work ...
Douglas Kelly, 1978
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Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts
Illustrations drawn from medieval manuscripts provide insight into courtly love, the stylised and idealistic relationship between a chivalrous knight and his lady.
Pamela J. Porter, 2003
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Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of ...
In "Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality," James A. Schultz draws on key texts from the German tradition to explore the answers to this question.
James A. Schultz, 2006
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The Art of Courtly Love
He has also written a foreword highlighting the work's continued relevance and updated the bibliography with new critical sources.
Andreas Capellanus, 2009
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Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval ...
In "Courtly Love Undressed," E. Jane Burns explores the representation of this material culture in the literary texts and other documents that imagine various functions for elite clothing in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France.
E. Jane Burns, 2002
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Courtly Love in the Canterbury Tales
This is a relatively vague definition of the topic of courtly love and it only summarizes the most important points.
Cindy Härcher, 2013
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Elements of Courtly Love in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
Still, ample characteristics of the concept behind the term will be found which are suited to be analyzed in the light of their application in the Miller's Tale.
Fritz Hubertus Vaziri, 2008
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The Discourse of Courtly Love in Seventeenth-century Spanish ...
This book contextualizes this polemic in literary, cultural, and ideological terms; it recognizes both the unique cultural circumstances of the early modern Spanish theater and the long-standing underlying artistic tensions influencing its ...
Robert Elliott Bayliss, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COURTLY LOVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term courtly love is used in the context of the following news items.
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All you need is love… or is it?
Chivalry, and the accompanying tradition of courtly love, schooled the uncouth knights of Europe in the art of behaving like somebody who ... «Patheos, Jun 15»
2
June, Moon, Tune
Eleanor of Aquitaine may or may not have played a central role in promoting the cult of courtly love and its songs, but she exemplifies the ... «The New Yorker, Jun 15»
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"South, America: A Jack Prine Novel"
... Jack realizes, but the knight errant, partly motivated by courtly love and partly hooked by lust, speeds to help the beautiful lady in distress. «Alabama Public Radio, Jun 15»
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Everybody does it
... standards of La Ponte and read this comic opera as a critique of romantic or courtly love and an analysis of loyalty, trust, deception, betrayal, ... «Trinidad Guardian, Jun 15»
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Kathryn Le Veque on the father of all heroes: The medieval knight
Chivalric romance was all about the "courtly love"; i.e., properly moral love between a man and a woman according to the custom of the times. «USA TODAY, Jun 15»
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Is the Soul Gendered?
For instance, along with the Church being thought of in feminine terms, part of the Medieval courtly love tradition thought of the soul as feminine ... «Patheos, Jun 15»
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Game of Thrones became its own worst enemy, and I need to let it go
Courtly love and chivalry were the product of a rigid, bigoted hierarchy. Living as royalty in a feudal system meant accepting that all ... «The Verge, Jun 15»
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Celebrating Dia dos Namorados 2015 in Rio de Janeiro
... including other Portuguese-speaking nations, observe Valentine's Day, held in celebration of Saint Valentine and courtly love, in February, ... «The Rio Times, Jun 15»
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Walking Away by Simon Armitage review – the South West Coast …
Likewise his troubadour is not the Provençal poet, spouting tales of courtly love in Oc, flitting wheresoe'er the whim takes him. Perhaps every ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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Medieval glories: gold and ivory at Louvre-Lens
There are luminous stained-glass panels, ivory mirrors engraved with scenes of courtly love and games of chess, the tender gold-painted ... «Financial Times, May 15»

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