When most people think about medieval marriages they are either practical, cold, and loveless, or the idealised “courtly love” of chivalric knights and damsels in distress. But what was married life ...
It’s Valentine’s Day, and it’s snowing. No problem. I’ve curled up with a box of chocolates and a couple of good books. Today, they’re all about courtly love. Back in the 12th century, in the age of ...
Historian Gristwood (The Queen’s Mary) offers an engrossing look at how the Tudor dynasty employed the “stylish and stylised game” of courtly love. Popularized by medieval Arthurian legends depicting ...
In the historian Sarah Gristwood’s “The Tudors in Love,” for both monarchs and courtiers the stakes are higher than romance. Card one, clockwise from top: Henry VIII; Mary I; Queen Elizabeth I. Card ...
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Love and Marriage for Medieval Citizens
When most people think about medieval marriages they are either practical, cold, and loveless, or the idealised “courtly love” of chivalric knights and damsels in distress. But what was married life ...
The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 109, No. 1 (WINTER 2019), pp. 24-37 (14 pages) Jonathan P. Decter, Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian ...
On April 27, Boston Baroque presented a thrilling production of one of the gems of baroque opera, George Frideric Handel’s opera “Ariodante,” which is a tale of love’s triumph over evil set in ...
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