courtly love

(noun)

A mediaeval European conception of noble and chivalrous love, generally secret and between members of the nobility.

Related Terms

  • courtship
  • intimacy

Examples of courtly love in the following topics:

  • Romantic Love

    • Romance is the expressive and pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction to another person, and is associated with love.
    • In the context of romantic love relationships, romance usually implies an expression of one's strong romantic love, or one's deep and strong emotional desires to connect with another person intimately.
    • The conception of romantic love was popularized in Western culture by the concept of courtly love.
    • Romantic love is contrasted with platonic love which in all usages precludes sexual relations, yet only in the modern usage does it take on a fully asexual sense, rather than the classical sense in which sexual drives are sublimated.
    • The conception of romantic love was popularized in Western culture by the concept of courtly love.
  • Racial Stratification

    • This was the experience of Mildred and Richard Loving, who married in 1958 in Washington D.C., a district in the US that no longer had a law against interracial marriage.
    • Bazile, told the Lovings during their trial for miscegenation that, 'if God had meant for whites and blacks to mix, he would have not placed them on different continents. ' He also seemed to take pride in telling the Lovings, "as long as you live you will be known as a felon. " The Lovings eventually contacted the American Civil Liberties Union, who took their case to the Supreme Court in 1967, resulting in Loving v.
  • Ideal vs. Real Culture

    • In America, ideal values include marriage and monogamy based on romantic love.
    • But in reality, many marriages are based on something other than romantic love: money or convenience, for instance.
    • None of this is to say that monogamous marriages based on romantic love do not exist.
    • An example of an ideal value is the idea of marriage and monogamy based on romantic love .
    • While monogamous marriages based on romantic love certainly do exist, such marriages are not universal, despite our value ideals.
  • Primary Groups

    • A primary group is a group in which one exchanges implicit items, such as love, caring, concern, support, etc.
    • Examples of these would be family groups, love relationships, crisis support groups, and church groups.
    • A primary group is a group in which one exchanges implicit items, such as love, caring, concern, support, etc.
    • Examples of these would be family groups, love relationships, crisis support groups, and church groups.
  • Marriage and Responsibility

    • People marry for love, for socioeconomic stability, to start a family, and to create obligations between one another.
    • The reasons people marry vary widely, but usually include publicly and formally declare their love, the formation of a single household unit, legitimizing sexual relations and procreation, social and economic stability, and the education and nurturing of children.
  • Feral Children

    • A feral child is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has no (or little) experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and, crucially, of human language.
    • She communicates through the PECS system and loves to swim and ride horses.
  • Levels of measurement: Binary, signed, and valued graphs

    • Lastly, we could have asked: "on a scale from minus one hundred to plus one hundred - where minus 100 means you hate this person, zero means you feel neutral, and plus 100 means you love this person - how do you feel about...".
  • White-Collar Crime

    • Indeed, the Hooker Chemical Company dumped toxic waste into the abandoned Love Canal in Niagara Falls and sold the land without disclosing the dumping.
    • Indeed, the Hooker Chemical Company dumped toxic waste into the abandoned Love Canal in Niagara Falls and sold the land without disclosing the dumping.
  • Dimensions of Human Development

    • In early adulthood, the person must learn how to form intimate relationships, both in friendship and love.
  • Countercultures

    • The counterculture in the United States lasted from roughly 1964 to 1973 — coinciding with America's involvement in Vietnam — and reached its peak in 1967, the "Summer of Love. " The movement divided the country: to some Americans, these attributes reflected American ideals of free speech, equality, world peace, and the pursuit of happiness; to others, the same attributes reflected a self-indulgent, pointlessly rebellious, unpatriotic, and destructive assault on America's traditional moral order.
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