The concept of courtly love is also combined with the code of chivalry which forms the ideal medieval world of brave and elegant knights. ... In the actual medieval period the terms 'Amour Honestus' (Honest Love) and 'Fin Amor' (Refined Love) appeared. ... Corresponding, the most modern interpretations of medieval love literature tell us more about modern sensibilities than medieval ones. This misunderstanding, too, is based on the fact that people in the medieval times were not comfortable with the practises of approving and analysing intimate feelings and in fact, we ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The concept of courtly love is also combined with the code of chivalry which forms the ideal medieval world of brave and elegant knights. ... In the actual medieval period the terms 'Amour Honestus' (Honest Love) and 'Fin Amor' (Refined Love) appeared. ... Corresponding, the most modern interpretations of medieval love literature tell us more about modern sensibilities than medieval ones. This misunderstanding, too, is based on the fact that people in the medieval times were not comfortable with the practises of approving and analysing intimate feelings and in fact, we ...

• Word Count: 1140
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In The Decameron, Boccaccio places us in a time when the plague was running rampant within the medieval realm. ... Soon after, the seven women and three men quickly find themselves leaving town with only with an agenda to "pursue whatever pleasures and entertainments the present times would afford while shunning at all costs the lewd practices of their fellow citizens (16-17)." ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate