1. Courtly Love - Medieval Europe
It seems that to most women love was playful, though sometimes they too got caught up in the messy tangle of emotions love could prove to be. ... For all the good troubadour poetry did for women it still kept up the misogynistic tendencies from previous centuries and courtly love did make women vulnerable to an extent. ... Women were still stuck in a position of ambiguity, society could not decide how to treat them and it does not seem as if much thought was given to how things affected them. ... The same woman could go from being very empowered by these acts of love to being hated and shu...
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