How To Use courtly love In A Sentence
- The ambiguities of courtly love were supposed to have prepared him for the veiled language of international diplomacy. The Times Literary Supplement
- In his treatment of the sexual undertones of courtly love and seventeenth-century gallantry, Maidment's wicked sense of humour could reduce a tutorial to helpless laughter.
- By the mid-1520s Wyatt was one of Henry's "Esquires of the Body" – part servant, part playmate, part bodyguard – and a keen participant in the Henrician craze for chivalric games and tourneys, as well as the endless round of amorous banter and titillation which went under the guise of "courtly love". The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review
- Along with many exotic artifacts, Feng has imported the codes and language of courtly love, with its cult of indirection, of secrecy, and of long, slow, wooing.
- This is reinforced by the final exchange between Gawain and the Green Knight where the poet shows the way he feels feudalism should work - by banishing courtly love and women from the code of chivalry.
- Before the time of greedy kings, gallant knights, and courtly love, there was a time when woodland creatures still roamed the earth.
- She had always been a proper lady, who believed in classic things like courtly love and un-divorceable marriage.
- It necessarily uses the conventions and language of courtly love. The Times Literary Supplement
- In this sense the novel is the long-delayed answer of the lower classes to the courtly pastourelle… It is a protest, democratic and sentimental at once, against the courtly love codes and the sexual tyranny which they disguised.
- Poets and wandering minstrels to a remarkably open and tolerant society, they wrote of freedom and justice and gallantry and of a kind of courtly love that was entirely new to literature.
