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	Romance (genre) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The boundaries between the romance and the chansons de geste of the troubadours was somewhat fluid.
		Romancers wrote many of their stories in three, thematic cycles: (i) the Arthurian (the lives and deeds of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table); (ii) the Carlovingian (the lives and deeds of Charlemagne, and Roland, his principal paladin); and, (iii) the Alexandrian (the life and deeds of Alexander the Great).
		Romance divides into two main forms: a secular form dealing with chivalry and knight-errantry, and a religious form devoted to legends of saints.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romance_(genre) (1230 words)

	Fantasia: Medieval Romance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The word romance comes from the Old French term "romans," which was used to differentiate the language of the people from the language of the Church and also to identify the supposedly historical French poems.
		Romance was thus evolving into a genre typified by exciting adventures, emotional excess, idealized behavior, and superstition, focused on a hero who sought deadly adventure for the sake of the adventure and who could withstand odds no human could realistically withstand.
		Romance originated in France, and therefore reflects French tastes; it was written by poets skilled in adapting the old oral legends to suit French sentiments.
	www.irishrealm.com /romance.html (1715 words)

	Backgrounds to Romance: Courtly Love
		The "courtly love" relationship is modelled on the feudal relationship between a knight and his liege lord.
		The "courtly love" relationship typically was not between husband and wife, not because the poets and the audience were inherently immoral, but because it was an idealized sort of relationship that could not exist within the context of "real life" medieval marriages.
		One reason why the lady in the courtly love relationship is typically older, married and of higher social status than the knight may be because she was modelled on the wife of the feudal lord, who might naturally become the focus of the young, unmarried knights' desire.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl513/courtly/courtly.htm (840 words)

	History of FRENCH LITERATURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Courtly love is associated first, in the 12th century, with the famous troubadours of southern France.
		The devotion of the courtly lover to his mistress is in one sense a reflection of the unswerving loyalty owed by the vassal to his lord in the idealized concept of feudalism.
		Even more significant, he is the first to adapt courtly love (developed by the troubadours in their lyrics) to the more sustained pleasures of narrative and adventure.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac81 (1813 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: German Courtly Romance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Both Erec and Iwein ultimately represent the absolute ideals of courtly romances, though both have first to realize their own shortcomings rooted in their self-centredness and lack of empathy which blind them to their obligations as knights to deal with existential dangers and military threats.
		Both romances explore the devastating consequences of physical violence, mistreatment of women, disregard of chivalric honor, and lack of communication, all of which could lead to the downfall of courtly society.
		Wolfram skillfully combined the traditional Arthurian romance with the new concept of the Grail romance and was thus able to integrate a strongly religious component in his narrative.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1279 (2540 words)

	UPenn Working Papers in Romance Langs. 3 (1998-99): 40-50 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		From the time of his stay in Naples (1327), Boccaccio had the chance to participate in the exuberance of the mercantile world while experiencing the cultural stimuli of a society which was opening itself to secular philosophical and rationalistic interests.
		The present essay does not attempt to be an exhaustive study; rather, it intends to illustrate a possible conclusion derived from a mytho-folkloric investigation of courtly romance.
		In this novella by Boccaccio, as well as in the chivalric romances of the previous centuries, there resides the possibility of a shift between the narrative level itself, along with all its literary, historical and sociological characteristics, and the various, sometimes difficult to recognize, folkloric patterns.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /romance/gra/WPs1999/boccac.html (3820 words)

	COURTLY LOVE ROMANCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Courtly love - the beginning of western romance - is by definition adulterous love or love not sanctioned by.
		Not to be confused with the bodice-rippers at the supermarket checkout, romance developed in twelfth century France and displaced the epic as the dominant literary mode of the middle ages..
		Romance differs from the epic in its representation not of a world of heroic tribal war but of chivalry and courtly love.
	courtly.dataa.biz (575 words)

	CollegeClub.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Courtly love is the term used to describe a certain set of social attitudes and behaviors that became popular in southern France in the twelfth century, and soon spread throughout medieval Europe as a fashion prevalent in royal and aristocratic circles.
		Essentially, courtly love refers to a love relationship in which a knight worships and serves an aristocratic lady (who quite often is married), tames his warlike instincts on her behalf, writes poetry lamenting her coldness and distance, and idealizes his beloved's purity and perfection.
		The Roman retold the fall of Troy as an extended courtly romance, constantly diverting from the battlefield to narrate the amatory exploits of major and minor characters.
	navisite.collegeclub.com /servlet/novelnotes.TermsServlet?note=troilus (1023 words)

	§8. "The Tale of Gamelyn". XVII. Later Transition English. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It forms an admirable link between the courtly romance and the poetry of the outlaws of the greenwood.
		A younger brother, despoiled of his share in the inheritance, is ill-clothed and given poor food by his eldest brother, handed over to understrappers to be thrashed and otherwise maltreated.
		It is a “loveless” tale of the earlier Stevenson kind; no courtly dame has part or parcel therein; nevertheless, in the form in which we now have it, The Tale of Gamelyn is quite excellent, is, in fact, typically English in its sense of free life and open air.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/211/1708.html (266 words)

	Swinburne and Courtly Love (Chapter 1)
		Courtly love themes dominate this play, whose tragedy is precipitated by the kind of adulterous relationship the troubadour poets idealized, and is consummated in murder by Eleanor.
		For the troubadours and courtly romanceurs, love as a topos became a flexible artistic convention that served to comprehend religious aspirations, to espouse moral values, to cope with carnal lusts, and to etherealize political issues, which resulted in wars fought in the name of love and under the auspices of the beloved.
		The courtly lover does not have a "love of death" but of the Absolute, the Infinite, all that is beyond the sphere of mortal contingency.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/swinburne/harrison/1.html (5462 words)

	Review of Stephen Jaeger's Origins of Courtliness
		The romance genre and the blossoming of courtly literature were a result of the proceeding process of civilization.
		Courtly romance was especially a powerful factor in the transmission of ideals of courtesy to all levels of society.
		Certainly court satire and romance were important in the shaping of courtly culture, however.
	www.chronique.com /Library/Reviews/review_jaeger.html (526 words)

	Dante's 'love' for Beatrice: A Courtly Romance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is difficult to understand what it was Dante fell in love with, having had no meaningful association with her and apparently having been fairly unconcerned with her physical appearance.
		He was betrothed to and married a woman by the name of Gemma Donati, although the time at which this marriage took place is unclear, and Beatrice later married a man named Simon de' Bardi before she her death in 1290.
		Courtly love itself is difficult to define, but it does have certain characteristics similar to those which were represented in Dante's affection for Beatrice, such as the secretive element of the relationship, where Dante was so determined that Beatrice would not discover his feelings towards her that he pretended to be courting other Florentine women.
	www.dicksonc.act.edu.au /Showcase/ClioContents/chivalry/dante.html (921 words)

	courtly love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Courtly love is something entirely new in Europe, and the major source of our modern ideas about romantic love.
		Courtly love is not very popular currently, especially not in serious literature and film.
		This ideal of courtly love which developed in Poitiers helped to free women from the role of inferior, destructive Eve and take on some of the status and elevation of the beatified Mary.
	novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/eng251/amourstudy.htm (2909 words)

	Search Results for courtly - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Courtly romance, a new narrative form in the 12th century, was the major vehicle for Middle High German Classicism.
		The rationalistic ideal of French courtly education can be seen foreshadowed in Montaigne's Essays (1580), in which the ideal man was described as having a natural, sensible way of life not deeply...
		The numerous 15th-century followers of Chaucer continued to treat the conventional range of courtly and moralizing topics, but only rarely with the intelligence and stylistic accomplishment of their...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=courtly&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (317 words)

	History of LITERATURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The great medieval hero of Spanish epic and romance is known even in his own day as El Cid, from an Arabic phrase meaning 'the lord'.
		Although later than courtly epics such as the Chanson de Roland, the poem retains the darkness and violence of its Germanic tribal origins.
		The other important aspect of French courtly literature, the lyric poetry of the troubadours, has its direct German equivalent in the Minnesinger (those who sing of Minne, an old word for 'love').
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=2179&HistoryID=ac01 (3027 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Looking ahead to the effect that romance has on Paolo and Francesca, have students explain how the pilgrim's misperception of these sinners might be linked to the uncontrollable pity he suddenly feels.
		Yet her story is not told in the high style of courtly romance, the style, presumably, of the Lancelot story she and Paolo read.
		It is, instead, a kind of home-made romance, a reflection of the fictional ideal in the mundane terms of everyday life.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=293 (3382 words)

	segol04
		If the courtly ethos is shown to be a synthesis of Arabic-mediated classical literature and French culture, as portrayed in the first garden, this piece elaborates that message.
		Her portrait accords with that of the conventional courtly lady, which generally includes blonde hair, clear, fair skin, bright eyes, small firm breasts, and a slender waist, with her beauty emphasized through the inexpressibility topos.
		Early in the romance, her breasts are compared to "two large walnuts." Walnuts, small and hard but looking very little like breasts, were a recent import to France.
	clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu /clcweb04-2/segol04.html (6760 words)

	courtly romance - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		It is impossible to have a romance strictly based on the rules of courtly love unless the author...through all the trials of courtly love romances, but he has first made...
		...the fundamental purpose of the courtly romance" is "a self-portrayal of feudal...a deliberate departure from courtly romance, and from the epics circulating...traditions from classical lore and courtly romance.
		Chivalry unmasked: courtly spectacle and the abuses of romance in Sidneys New Arcadia...promotion of the protocols of romance in her own courtly pageants ceremonially...encounters from the world of courtly romance results in the destruction...
	www.questia.com /search/courtly-romance (1839 words)

	Romeo and Juliet Aspects of Love
		Courtly love is a philosophy that was prominent in chivalric times and had a significant irifluence on Renaissance literature.
		Courtly love is a philosophy that was prominent in chivalric times and had a significant influence on Renaissance literature.
		Capellanus explained the doctrine of courtly love in thirty-one "rules." In essence, it is illicit and sensual and is accompanied by...
	www.enotes.com /romeo/17523 (513 words)

	ayrom
		The courtly romance concerns the mythical kingdom of Theseus, wealthy rulers, and pagan (mythical) gods.
		Deeply embedded in his tale of Arcite and Palamon is a critique of courtly love and of a right-ordered world, which happens to correspond to the writings of Boethius, a work that, not incidentally, was translated into English by Chaucer.
		In what is a travesty of courtly ideals, they unleash all their hatred for each other and fight brutally, almost to the death.
	www.english.ucsb.edu /faculty/oconnell/ayrom.htm (1831 words)

	Essay or Coursework - Can Middle English Romances be considered popular and non-courtly? Discuss.
		Therefore Sir Gawain is presented as the typical courtly romance hero as he is noble and honourable.
		Therefore although the poem focuses on a key concept of courtly romance, it is unusual as it does not deal with chivalry in the way expected.
		The courtly and knightly ideal is ridiculed through Sir Gawain's failure of the devious tests of temptation and courage set up for him.
	www.coursework.info /i/47723.html (484 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		And it would be best of all for the reader to feel confident enough through familiarity with both the overall themes and plots, as well as the original stories themselves, to craft a satisfying adventure of their own imaginings.
		Historical Development of the Grail Romances Medieval authors of the Grail Quest were all attempting to mix the needs and desires of the church with those of the court.
		Gawaine even has a romance where he himself is the winner of the Grail, Heinrich von tem Turlin's "Diu Crone." It is a purposeful parody of many other Grail stories.
	www.employees.org /~pcorless/pendragon/grail-quests.txt (1750 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Chivalry and Courtly Love
		The lesson will culminate in a group-based theatrical project, where students synthesize their knowledge and understanding of these ideals of chivalry, honor, and courtly love, to write a script, create scenery, and act out a short thematic play.
		This exercise will encourage them to develop their own ideas about forging and abiding by a code of behavior in life, and to consider what benefits and sacrifices might stem from using such a code.
		Distribute the info sheet, The Rules of Courtly Love and explain to the class that the book, The Art of Courtly Love was written at the request of Countess Marie.
	www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/3707 (1836 words)

	Arthurian Literature & Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		True-life Romance in the 12th-Century--this love story of Abelard and Heloise contrasts with the fictions of courtly love.
		Courtly Love in the Lais of Marie de France--Part I of essay on two of her lais.
		The Ideals of Romantic and Courtly Love--good history paper covering Abelard and Heloise, the lais of Marie de France, and other writers.
	members.cox.net /academia/labelle.html (2495 words)

	Court life
		Elizabeth, Her Poets, and the Creation of the Courtly Manner: A Study of Sir John Harington, Sir Philip Sydney, and John Lyly.
		The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210.
		Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry Viii: Literature Culture and the Arts of Deceit.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLT/reference/bcourt.html (342 words)

	The Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures
		Also explored will be the deep reliance on folklore motifs as a means of instruction and of imaginative engagement with reference to their use in the rich Medieval Latin tradition of example and sermons.
		Central to the discussion will be the satire of courtly life and ideals in Heinrich von Wittenweiler's Ring and in selected poems by Neidhart von Reuental and his contemporaries.
		We will also examine the political and social life that inspired or cultivated the continuation or transformation of courtly romance, satire, hagiography and the recasting of Germanic epic matter.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~germanic/courselist/currentofferings/description/520.htm (287 words)

	French Department Faculty :: Ana Pairet Viñas
		My areas of research include the late Middle Ages in France and the Iberian Peninsula; courtly romance; mythography; historiography; linguistic and cultural code-switching; textual and generic transformation; and translation.
		I have recently completed a book on representations of metamorphosis in medieval France, Les mutacions des fables: figures de la métamorphose dans la littérature française du Moyen Age (Honoré Champion, 2002), which traces the evolution of narratives of bodily change in vernacular literature from the 12th to the 15th centuries.
		My current research project concerns the evolution of courtly romance in the late Middle Ages.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~french2/faculty/fac-pairet.htm (382 words)

	romance
		As the modern English word "romance" implies, this is often a world of love.
		The word "romanz" in Old French designates first all that is not "Latin," that is "romance" as in romance languages.
		The medieval romance is self-consciously a celebration of the vernacular language, of French.
	www.cc.utah.edu /~jr6353/Romance.htm (620 words)

	Arthurian Romance I: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Study Questions)
		While medieval romances are frequently episodic -- that is, they relate a series of adventures undergone by a person or persons seeking to fulfill a specific quest -- the best romances are carefully constructed: adventures are not randomly chosen, and details tend to "count," adding to the meaning of the work as a whole.
		This concept is similar to the Chaucerian virtue of "gentilesse," and may be represented by other terms such as "courtly," "courtliness" or "courteous." Pay attention to these terms when they come up in the poem.
		In traditional "courtly love," a knight performs feats of valor for a lady he loves who is generally not his wife.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl512/sggk.html (971 words)

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