Courtly Love

Courtly Love by Harris Bin Munawar On Love & Courtly Love: According to Andrew the Chaplain, the founder of the formal doctrine of courtly love, "Love is an inborn suffering proceeding from the sight and immoderate thought upon the beauty of the other sex, for which cause above all other things one wishes to embrace the other and, by common assent, in this embrace to fulfill the commandments of love."1 Indeed for many centuries in …

…udy Guide: Focus on Courtly Love, February 2003 [Online] available: http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/Troy/amourstudy.htm 19.Robert Briffault, The Mothers (abridged by G. R. Taylor), New York: Atheneum, 1977. 20.Dr. Debora B. Schwartz, Backgrounds to Romance: "Courtly Love", 1998, [Online] available: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl513/courtly/courtly.htm 21.Wechssler, Das Kulturproblem des Minnesangs, 1909, Bnd. 1, page 177. 22.Bruce MacLennan, Interpretation of Courtly Love, March 2001, [Online] available: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/Classes/US310/Interp-Court-Love.html