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The 56 pages that link to Courtly love, each with the reason it gives.

• ChivalryRelated: Romances linked knightly conduct to refined behavior and devotion, though not always to historical practice.

• Geoffrey ChaucerRelated: Chaucer adapts and mocks its conventions in poems including The Book of the Duchess.

• Chivalric romanceRelated: Romances make desire a source of discipline, conflict, and knightly achievement.

• TroubadourRelated: Its conventions shaped many troubadour songs about devotion and desire.

• Christine de PizanRelated: Its conventions shaped much of the poetry Christine composed for courtly audiences.

• Eleanor of AquitaineRelated: Later writers linked Eleanor’s court with courtly love, though many such claims lack firm evidence.

• International GothicRelated: Its refined ideals shaped the aristocratic subjects and gestures found in courtly imagery.

• Romantic loveBroader topic: It supplied influential themes of longing, service, and idealization in Western romance.

• Chrétien de TroyesRelated: His romances dramatize the demands and conflicts of love at an aristocratic court.

• CourtshipCompared with: Its literary convention is distinct from the modern relationship-forming process meant here.

• PetrarchismRelated: Petrarchism recasts its service, longing, and distance in the language of lyric poetry.

• NibelungenliedRelated: The poem’s courtship and marriage plots place desire within a world of rank and political obligation.

• Nizami GanjaviRelated: Its ideals illuminate the lovers’ trials and conduct in Nizami’s verse.

• Court poetryRelated: Its stylized language of service and desire became a recurring courtly poetic mode.

• Giovanni BoccaccioRelated: Boccaccio adapts courtly conventions while frequently exposing the practical and comic complications of desire.

• KnightRelated: Courtly literature linked knightly identity with disciplined service and aristocratic romance.

• Occitan literatureRelated: Its conventions organize many troubadour lyrics and their speakers' desires.

• Royal courtCompared with: The ideal borrowed the language of court hierarchy, but describes a literary code rather than court government.

• LancelotRelated: Lancelot’s affair embodies courtly love while exposing its conflict with marriage and feudal loyalty.

• CourtierRelated: Courtly ideals helped shape the manners and literary culture of aristocratic courts.

• Arthurian romanceRelated: Its tensions shape romances such as those involving Lancelot and Guinevere.

• Burgundian SchoolRelated: Chanson texts often draw on the refined language of courtly desire.

• GuinevereRelated: The Guinevere–Lancelot relationship is among the best-known literary expressions of this ideal.

• Sir Gawain and the Green KnightRelated: The bedroom scenes draw on its language while making courtesy ethically risky.

• Baldassare CastiglioneRelated: Castiglione’s dialogue adapts inherited ideals of love to the social world of the Renaissance court.

• Roman de la RoseRelated: The lover’s service and desire draw on conventions the poem both uses and questions.

• Romance (genre)Related: Medieval romances used its language of service and desire to frame knightly conduct.

• EuphuismRelated: Euphuistic romances use elaborate language to present love as a test of wit and conduct.

• Marie de FranceRelated: Marie’s lais examine the costs and possibilities of love within courtly conventions.

• Medieval literatureRelated: Courtly conventions shaped lyric poetry and romance across several medieval languages.

• Love (emotion)Related: It shows how cultural conventions can define love as longing and service.

• PrécieusesRelated: Its inherited ideals informed salon conversations about love, manners, and emotional conduct.

• The Knight in the Panther's SkinRelated: The poem joins intense romantic devotion to tests of honor and self-command.

• Valentine’s DayRelated: Medieval love poetry helped shape the holiday’s association with romantic courtship.

• François VillonCompared with: Villon borrows its language but frequently turns idealized desire toward bodily need and comic failure.

• Jean de MeunCompared with: Jean de Meun’s continuation challenges the idealized love that shapes Guillaume de Lorris’s opening.

• Jean FroissartRelated: Its poetic conventions help situate Froissart’s writing within aristocratic culture.

• Madame d’AulnoyRelated: Its conventions inform the trials, loyalties, and marriage plots in many of her tales.

• Troilus and CriseydeRelated: Troilus’s devotion follows conventions of courtly service and idealized passion.

• Gottfried von StrassburgRelated: The romance tests courtly ideals against the lovers’ overwhelming desire.

• William IX of AquitaineRelated: His poems sometimes anticipate its themes, though they also mock romantic conventions.

• Arnaut DanielRelated: Its conventions provide a frequent subject and framework for troubadour lyrics.

• As You Like ItCompared with: Rosalind’s practical coaching gently parodies idealized romantic convention.

• Dafydd ap GwilymRelated: His love poems adapt this convention while giving desire a vivid, personal voice.

• Dolce Stil NovoNarrower topic: The movement reshaped courtly devotion into a more inward and intellectually refined experience.

• James I of ScotlandRelated: The poem frames its speaker’s love through conventions familiar from medieval courtly literature.

• Maurice ScèveRelated: Délie reshapes the inherited lover-and-beloved relationship through spiritual and intellectual tension.

• Walther von der VogelweideRelated: Its conventions supplied a framework Walther could adapt and challenge in his love songs.

• Agnès SorelCompared with: Its idealized language contrasts with the political realities of Sorel’s relationship with the king.

• Hand-kissingRelated: Hand-kissing can echo courtly ideals of reverence and devoted attention.