Basics of Love

Unlike today where chivalry is dead, in the medieval era ‘courtly love’ was the order of the day. You did not meet and jump onto people immediately, you gently coaxed them into giving you their affection and finally their heart and love. It was a long drawn out, and some say ‘beautiful process’, that its death has limited our experience and pleasure to be derived from the modern day dating process.

Courtly love

This was the love between a knight and his lady, it was not necessarily his wife but rather that woman whom he loved and consequently worked hard to prove himself worthy of her love. It was mostly seen in the court of King Arthur, because of the nature of the relationship, it could not exist between a man and his wife in this age. It was the ideal kind of relationship that allowed ladies of the court to give out favors to knights that they admired. There were