Written in Latin in the 12th century, Facetus: Moribus et vita {Courtly living: manners and life} miseducated men in love, abasing and criminalizing them. … Read the post Latin love teaching of Facetus: Moribus et vita miseducated men
Theologian Peter Lombard in his Sentences rejected courtly love and declared that men and women in love are intended to have an equal conjugal partnership. … Read the post Peter Lombard’s Sentences: conjugal partnership, not courtly love
The Arundel Lyrics, exquisite erotic poetry written in Latin in twelfth-century England, thoroughly explore the viaticum’s polarities of lovesickness … Read the post men suffering lovesickness: viaticum in medieval Latin poetry
Le Ménagier de Paris includes a poignant medieval husband’s fantasy of hardships of work, comforts from a wife, and forgiveness for adultery. … Read the post medieval husband fantasy: hardships, comfort & forgiveness
Narrow historical / technical disputes about amour courtois obscure broad scholarly endorsement of men’s love abjection and men’s love servitude to women. … Read the post amour courtois & glorification of men’s love abjection