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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (35068)	4/17/1999 2:27:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Joan, you are absolutely correct in your memories about the chivalric love fostered at the courts of Eleanor (between marriages while she was back in her own domain) and of several other royal women. From reading one source, the poet Andreas Capellanus, the rules of conduct and courtliness were varied and strict and the standards high, to the point where there were Courts of Love to try transgressors. Physical desire was to be sublimated in adoration of the unattainable lady's virtues. What is truly fascinating is the Moorish influence clearly at work in fashioning the codes of behavior. However, it believe that it was Ovid who first set out a set of rules for love.