Courtly love may have seemed the apotheosis of gallantry; the political consequences were anything but. Indeed, the rituals of courtly love were used to break Anne.

Courtly love tropes unquestionably informed Tudor spectacles, such as jousts and masques, as well as Henry VIII’s own propensity for disguises, Gristwood points out.

When Courtly Love Goes Wrong, It’s Deadly In “Hunting the Falcon,” the historians John Guy and Julia Fox take a fresh look at an infamous Tudor marriage — and find there is indeed more to ...

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Medieval and Renaissance Influence: The Rise of Courtly Love. AI of The Rise of Courtly Love. By the Middle Ages, Valentine's Day had begun to take on romantic associations, ...

Soon, courtly love was popular enough to have its own genre of slightly creepy self-help guides, including one that offered a series of points on how the infatuated courtly lover should behave.

On April 27, Boston Baroque presented a thrilling production of one of the gems of baroque opera, George Frideric Handel’s opera “Ariodante,” which is a tale of love’s triumph over evil ...

After the death of Beatrice (1290), Dante can offer prose explanations linking the poems. Their ardor follows the “courtly love” mode of French troubadours in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Historian Gristwood (The Queen’s Mary) offers an engrossing look at how the Tudor dynasty employed the “stylish and stylised game” of courtly love.Popularized by medieval Arthurian legends ...

The Medieval Love Debate exhibition, now open at Longleat House, centres on a rare manuscript known as MS 258. The digital exhibition is permanently available at ...