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many courtiers explicitly disdained any desire to possess their ladies

love was considered in medieval times a gift freely given therefore was excluded from marriage

Love, Guilherme argued was not an abasement but an exhalation, not a sordid sin but a divine mystery, and the lady within whose gift it lay was a goddess to be adored.

Courtly love: between troubadour (traveling poet) & high class lady— an adoration kind of love, one of chastity.

The arabs are responsible for courtly love because basically in Muslim society love is blind😹

Courtly love & the transition of eve to mary as woman’s ideal version

I actually find this so intriguing. It just takes so long to read 😔