courtly love
Noun
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Noun
courtly love (uncountable)
- A mediaeval European conception of noble and chivalrous love, generally secret and between members of the nobility.
- 2005, Slavoj Žižek, The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality, Verso (ISBN 9781844670611), page 89 ↗:
- The impression that courtly love is out of date, long superseded by modern manners, is a lure blinding us to how the logic of courtly love still defines the parameters within which the two sexes relate to each other.
- 2005, Slavoj Žižek, The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality, Verso (ISBN 9781844670611), page 89 ↗:
- French: amour courtois
- German: Minne
- Italian: amor cortese
- Spanish: amor cortés
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