Courtly Love

Comparison Essay• Compare and contrast courtly love with love in

today’s society• Your essay should include an introduction, a body,

and a conclusion.• You should use transition words.• You should have a thesis.• You should write four to five paragraphs.• You should only write in the third-person point-of -

view. • Grammar and spelling will count!

Outline Option #1I. Introduction

A. HookB. BackgroundC. Thesis: Include at least three ways to tell they are alike or different.

II. Reason 1III. Reason 2IV. Reason 3V. Conclusion

A. Restate Thesis with more insightB. Summarize PointsC. Bang

Option #2I. Introduction

A. HookB. BackgroundC. Thesis: Include at least three ways to tell they are alike and three ways to tell how they are different.

II. How they are alikeIII. How they are differentIV. Conclusion

A. Restate Thesis with more insightB. Summarize PointsC. Bang

As truth be told we try to complete the end of the story to see the ending result. Real life will never arranges itself exactly like a romance. So enjoy every moment until the end of the story because the memories before the fairy tale ending are worth making. Before there were cell phones and computers men used to show their devotion to a woman with matters of the heart, and of hope. Their futures were intertwined in the erotic desire, and loyalty expressed with the heart’s content. During courtship a woman is in control of the relationship where a man’s obedience and submission inspires him to do great deeds. Back in the day men would express their emotions, but in today’s society we find that men are to appear as masculine and factual. Where has all the romance gone or has romance hasn’t left its just changed form.

Ideal Love

The Stages of Courtly Love• Attraction to the lady, usually via eyes/glance

• Worship of the lady from afar • Declaration of passionate devotion

• Virtuous rejection by the lady • Renewed wooing with oaths of virtue and eternal fealty

• Moans of approaching death from unsatisfied desire (and other physical manifestations of lovesickness)

• Heroic deeds of valor which win the lady's heart • Consummation of the secret love

• Endless adventures and subterfuges avoiding detection

The Twelve Rules of Love from The Art of Courtly Love by

Andreas Capellanus• 1. Thou shalt avoid avarice like the

deadly pestilence and shalt embrace its opposite.

• 2. Thou shalt keep thyself chaste for the sake of her whom thou lovest.

• 3. Thou shalt not knowingly strive to break up a correct love affair that someone else is engaged in.

• 4. Thou shalt not chose for thy love anyone whom a natural sense of shame forbids thee to marry.

• 5. Be mindful completely to avoid falsehood.

Rules continued• 6. Thou shalt not have many

who know of thy love affair. • 7. Being obedient in all things to

the commands of ladies, thou shalt ever strive to ally thyself to the service of Love.

• 8. In giving and receiving love's solaces let modesty be ever present.

• 9. Thou shalt speak no evil. • 10. Thou shalt not be a revealer

of love affairs. • 11. Thou shalt be in all things

polite and courteous. • 12. In practicing the solaces of

love thou shalt not exceed the desires of thy lover.