Courtly love and women in the Middle Age

1. MIDDLE
AGE

2. Courtly love
• Origin: the late
11th century by
the
troubadours.
• This come from
the Provence
(souther
France)

3. • AIM:
Redefine
traditional
Christian
ideals of love,
marriage,
manhood,
virtue,
feminity.

4. • Under the
sponsorship
of powerful
nobles like
Eleonor of
Aquitaine
and Marie
Champagne…

5. • …their
influence
gradually
spread
throughout
France,
England and
Germany.

6. • By the middle of
the 13th century,
the troubadour
philosophy become
practically
institutionalized
throughout the
courts of Europe,
and “fine love” had
become the basis
for a glamorous and
exciting new style
of life.

7. • Courtly
love was
charazteriz
ed by 5
main
attributes.
In essence,
the
relationshi
p was:

8. • Aristocratic
: courtly
love was
practiced by
noble lords
and ladies.

9. • Ritualistic:
The lady was
the constant
recipient of
songs, poems,
bouquets,
sweet favours
and
ceremonial
gestures. She
just need to
return a short
of approvald,
and after all,
she was the
exalted

10. • Secret:
courtly lovers
were pledged
to strict
secrecy. The
lovers
composed a
universe unto
themselves.

11. • Adulterous: “Fine
love” was
extramarital.
Lovers escape
from the routines
of noble marriage,
and exalted their
carnal
relationship.

12. • Literary: as a
subject and
theme in
imaginative
literature.

13. • Click on the video
to listen a
troubadour love
song
http://www.youtu
be.com/watch?v=
Xk1W22yHLJQ&
feature=related

14. The women in the Middle
Age
• The female
model beauty
and the
situation of
women in the
Middle Age
was very
different.

15. • The female
model beauty:
beautiful,
pure, the
symbol of
human
wisdom and
perfection,
without men
couldn¡t
ascend to
heaven…

16. • He have as
example
Dante’s
Beatrice…

17. • …and
Petrarch’s
Laura.

18. • But the real
position of
women in
Middle Age
was
different…

19. • Because they
were
consider
inferior and
underestimat
ed..

20. … impures and
behind men…

21. • …and
dominated
by men to
order women
to do as they
wished.

22. • So the difference
between the
beauty model and
the real women
was very
controversial and
hypocritical.

23. • Click on the
video to see an
interesting
report about
important
women figures
in the Middle
Age
http://www.you
tube.com/watc
h?v=F5qRplq2
WAk&feature=
related

24. The end