Essays on Courtly Love

Courtly love became one of the maximum pervasive themes within the literature of Chaucer’s time. Consistent with this concept of affection, romance is an ennobling pressure which can enhance the male lover—typically a knight—to heights of bravery within the provider of his girl. The beloved,…

If Foucault and Judith Butler are right about the discursive production of identity, subjects, gender, and sexuality, then we are all inheritors of a long history of sexuality (re)unfolding in our lives as if we’re a CD on repeat through all of time. (Who knew…

Feudal Relations and Knighthood Upended The Effects of Courtly Love in Lancelot as Mediated Through Female Figures In Chrétien de Troyes’ Lancelot, multiple female figures continually frame the narrative and push it forward. Major shifts and turns in plot development carefully hinge upon the speech…

Courtly Love vs. True Love In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, courtly love and true love are portrayed through the light and dark imagery spoken by Romeo, and Juliet. A courtly lover is miserable in his love and is a delusional thinker. He…

Throughout Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”, the ideas of courtly love and chivalry are present throughout many of the tales, however these ideas are only in part. In order to understand how these notions are only partially present, it is important to understand what exactly…