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Courtly love and women in the Middle AgeTRANSCRIPT
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MIDDLE AGE
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Courtly love• Origin: the late
11th century bythetroubadours.
• This come fromthe Provence(southerFrance)
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• AIM: Redefine traditionalChristian ideals of love, marriage, manhood, virtue, feminity.
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• Under thesponsorshipof powerfulnobles likeEleonor of Aquitaineand Marie Champagne…
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• …theirinfluencegraduallyspread throughoutFrance, England and Germany.
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• By the middle of the 13th century, the troubadourphilosophy becomepracticallyinstitutionalizedthroughout thecourts of Europe, and “fine love” hadbecome the basisfor a glamorous and exciting new styleof life.
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• Courtlylove wascharazterized by 5 mainattributes. In essence, therelationship was:
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• Aristocratic: courtlylove waspracticed bynoble lordsand ladies.
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• Ritualistic: The lady wasthe constantrecipient of songs, poems, bouquets, sweet favoursand ceremonial gestures. Shejust need toreturn a short of approvald, and after all, she was theexalted“domina”.
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• Secret: courtly loverswere pledgedto strictsecrecy. Theloverscomposed a universe unto themselves.
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• Adulterous: “Fine love” wasextramarital. Lovers escape from the routinesof noble marriage, and exalted theircarnal relationship.
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• Literary: as a subject and theme in imaginativeliterature.
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• Click on the video to listen a troubadour lovesonghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk1W22yHLJQ&feature=related
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The women in the MiddleAge
• The femalemodel beautyand thesituation of women in theMiddle Agewas verydifferent.
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• The femalemodel beauty: beautiful, pure, thesymbol of humanwisdom and perfection, without mencouldn¡tascend toheaven…
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• He have as exampleDante’sBeatrice…
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• …and Petrarch’sLaura.
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• But the real position of women in Middle Agewasdifferent…
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• Because theywereconsiderinferior and underestimated..
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… impures and behind men…
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• …and dominatedby men toorder womento do as theywished.
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• So the differencebetween thebeauty model and the real womenwas verycontroversial and hypocritical.
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• Click on thevideo to see aninterestingreport aboutimportantwomen figures in the MiddleAgehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5qRplq2WAk&feature=related
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