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  1. Sep 2021
    1. No one can be bound by a double love

      This is beautiful, I believe that when you love someone you only love that one person. For example, If you can so easily cheat on someone or even look at other people romantically, you are not in love.

    2. Eleanor seems to have established the ground rules for a literary genre – and possibly a social game of sorts – which was then developed by her daughter who was the patroness of the poet Chretien de Troyes (l. c. 1130-1190 CE) and author Andreas Capellanus (12th century CE).

      The theme that i'm getting from this is the more women are involved with art in this time period the more humanized they appear. It's a good thing.

    3. others claim no such courts existed and that any literature suggesting they did is satire.

      I wonder if they had them or not. Love makes people do crazy things and if I had the money and power, I would wanna make things fun and exciting like this.

    4. Courtly love poetry featured a lady, usually married but always in some way inaccessible, who became the object of a noble knight's devotion, service, and self-sacrifice.

      This reminds me of a lot of sitcoms and comedies where a main character chases a girl all at the cost of their own pride.