The courtly poetry scenes were historically dominated by a few noble clans and allies, each of which staked out a position.

* A mixture of " courtly " and " pastoral " scenes ( such as the gentry and the island residents in The Tempest and the pastoral and courtly contrasts of The Winter's Tale ).

The bas-reliefs in Borobudur depicted many scenes of daily life in 8th century ancient Java ; from the courtly palace life, hermit in the forest, to those of commoners in the village.

Other than a few other works translated from the cycle of Charlemagne in the 13th century, the chansons de geste were not adapted into German, and it is believed that this was because the epic poems lacked what the romances specialized in portraying: scenes of idealized knighthood, love and courtly society.

Jean-Antoine Watteau invented a genre that was called fêtes galantes, where he would show scenes of courtly amusements taking place in Arcadian setting ; these often had a poetic and allegorical quality which were considered to ennoble them.

In Bologna, most of his painting depicted elaborate landscapes and aristocratic genre scenes of hunting and courtly loves, often paralleled in mythologic narratives.

Hunting scenes, familiar throughout the entire world, are often seen in Korean courtly art, and are reminiscent of Mongolian and Persian hunting scenes.

Soon minutely detailed landscapes and port scenes, animals, flowers, galante courtly scenes and chinoiseries — fanciful Chinese-inspired decorations — were to be found on Meissen porcelain.

Still, because we do not have much information about what occurred while Eleanor was in Poitiers, all that can be taken from this episode is that her court there was most likely a catalyst for the increased popularity of courtly love literature in the Western European regions.

According to Bloch, other elements of society can be seen in feudal terms ; all the aspects of life were centered on " lordship ", and so we can speak usefully of a feudal church structure, a feudal courtly ( and anti-courtly ) literature, and a feudal economy.

# Celtic or Chivalric-MatriarchalThe survival of pre-Christian sexual mores and warrior codes from matriarchal societies, be they Celtic, Germanic, or Pictish, among the aristocracy of Europe can account for the idea ( fusion ) of " courtly love ".

In 1936 C. S. Lewis wrote The Allegory of Love further solidifying courtly love as a " love of a highly specialized sort, whose characteristics may be enumerated as Humility, Courtesy, Adultery, and the Religion of Love ".

Richard Trachsler says that “ the concept of courtly literature is linked to the idea of the existence of courtly texts, texts produced and read by men and women sharing some kind of elaborate culture they all have in common .” He argues that many of the texts that scholars claim to be courtly also include “ uncourtly ” texts, and argues that there is no clear way to determine “ where courtliness ends and uncourtliness starts ” since readers would enjoy texts which were supposed to be entirely courtly without realizing they were also enjoying texts which were uncourtly.

Many of the conventions of courtly love can be traced to Ovid, through Andreas Capellanus, but it is doubtful that they are all traceable to this origin.

The final element of courtly love, the concept of " love as desire never to be fulfilled ", was at times implicit in Arabic poetry, but was first developed into a doctrine in European literature, in which all four elements of courtly love were present.

In the Germanic cultural world a special form of courtly love can be found, namely minne.

As the etiquette of courtly love became more complicated, the knight might wear the colors of his lady: where blue or black were sometimes the colors of faithfulness, green could be a sign of unfaithfulness.

The literary convention of courtly love can be found in most of the major authors of the Middle Ages such as Geoffery Chaucer, John Gower, Dante, Marie de France, Chretien de Troyes, Gottfried von Strassburg and Sir Thomas Malory.

The medieval genres in which courtly love conventions can be found include the lyric, the Romance and the allegory.

At this point, the issue of Joanna's mental incompetence moved from courtly annoyance to the centre of the political stage, since it was clear that Philip and his Burgundian entourage would be the real power-holders in Castile.

Tall ( 6 ft 2. 5 in ; 189 cm ), lanky, and handsome, Scott displayed an easygoing charm and courtly Southern drawl in his early films that helped offset his limitations as an actor, where he was frequently found to be stiff or " lumbering ".

This courtly trend can also be seen in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender.

The book purports to be an anthology of courtly poets, gathered and edited by Gascoigne and two other editors known only by the initials " H. W.

He may be regarded as a courtly annalist rather than an historian.

The introduction and adaptation of themes, models and verse forms from other European traditions and classical literature, the Elizabethan song tradition, the emergence of a courtly poetry often centred around the figure of the monarch and the growth of a verse-based drama are among the most important of these developments.

It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse.

However, Dante and his audience were interested in the emotions of courtly love and how they develop, how they are expressed in verse, how they reveal the permanent intellectual truths of the divinely created world and how love can confer blessing on the soul and bring it closer to God.

His most noted works include A Discourse of the Adventures of Master FJ ( 1573 ), an account of courtly sexual intrigue and one of the earliest English prose fictions ; The Supposes, ( performed in 1566, printed in 1573 ), an early translation of Ariosto and the first comedy written in English prose, which was used by Shakespeare as a source for The Taming of the Shrew ; the frequently anthologised short poem " Gascoignes wodmanship " ( 1573 ); and " Certayne Notes of Instruction concerning the making of verse or

The occitan troubadours were amazingly creative in the development of verse forms and poetic genres, but their greatest impact on medieval literature was perhaps in their elaboration of complex code of love and service called " fin amors " or, more generally, courtly love.

The occitan troubadours were amazingly creative in the development of verse forms and poetic genres, but their greatest impact on medieval literature was perhaps in their elaboration of complex code of love and service called " fin amors " or, more generally, courtly love.

In the source tale, a king is hoodwinked by weavers who claim to make a suit of clothes invisible to any man not the son of his presumed father ; whereas Andersen altered the source tale to direct the focus on courtly pride and intellectual vanity rather than adulterous paternity.

All courtly love was erotic to some degree, and not purely platonic — the troubadours speak of the physical beauty of their ladies and the feelings and desires the ladies arouse in them.

The prose creates the illusion of narrative continuity between the poems ; it is Dante's way of reconstructing himself and his art in terms of his evolving sense of the limitations of courtly love ( the system of ritualized love and art that Dante and his poet-friends inherited from the Provençal poets, the Sicilian poets of the court of Frederick II, and the Tuscan poets before them ).

The latter was translated from a Scots prose version at the suggestion of an aunt (" ane proper wenche "), who had found his treatment of the courtly allegory involved and uninteresting.

It was done with great taste, was big and spacious, sumptuous as the dreams of any peasant in its courtly costumes, but sumptuous in a muted, pastel-like style, with rich, quiet harmonies of color between the costumes themselves and between the costumes and the scenery.

There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce a 6-6 deadlock that blocked far-out, Democratic-sponsored welfare legislation ( a tactic often acceptable to the Rayburn-Johnson congressional leadership to avoid embarrassing votes ).

De Pizan ’ s participation in a literary quarrel, in 1401 – 1402, allowed her to move beyond the courtly circles, and ultimately to establish her status as a writer concerned with the position of women in society.

Erec and Enide and Cligès are tales of courtly love with Arthur's court as their backdrop, demonstrating the shift away from the heroic world of the Welsh and Galfridian Arthur, while Yvain, the Knight of the Lion features Yvain and Gawain in a supernatural adventure, with Arthur very much on the sidelines and weakened.

By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior.

More tries to illustrate how he can try to influence courtly figures including the King to the humanist way of thinking but, as Raphael points out, one day they will come into conflict with the political reality.

In terms of architecture and royal association, it was not until the Mastership of Thomas Nevile ( 1593 – 1615 ) that Trinity assumed both its spaciousness and courtly association with the governing class that distinguished it until the Civil War.

Historian Marilyn Yalom proposes that the prominence of medieval queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Blanche of Castile, the cult of the Virgin Mary, and the power ascribed to women in the troubadour tradition of courtly love, might have been partly responsible for influencing the piece towards its identity as a queen and its extraordinary power on the board, as might the medieval popularity of chess as a game particularly suitable for women to play on equal terms with men.

During this time, under the direction of court architects, Joseph Saint-Pierre and Carl von Gontard, numerous courtly buildings and attractions were created: the Margravial Opera House with its richly furnished baroque theatre ( 1744 – 1748 ), the New ' Castle ' and Sun Temple ( 1749 – 1753 ) at the Hermitage, the New Palace with its courtyard garden ( 1754 ff ) to replace the Old Palace which had burned down through the carelessness of the margrave, and the magnificent row of buildings in today's Friedrichstraße.

Addams was " sociable and debonair ," and described by a biographer as " A well-dressed, courtly man with silvery back-combed hair and a gentle manner, he bore no resemblance to a fiend.

Between the 11th century and 15th centuries medieval writers often used the word shivalry, in meanings that changed over time, generally moving from the concrete meaning of " status or fee associated with military follower owning a war horse " towards the moral ideal of the Christian warrior ethos propagated in the Romance genre which became popular by the 12th century, and the ideal of courtly love propagated in the contemporary Minnesang and related genres.

The texts of troubadour songs deal mainly with themes of chivalry and courtly love.

Since at the time marriage had little to do with love, courtly love was also a way for nobles to express the love not found in their marriage.

Courtly love was born in the lyric, first appearing with Provençal poets in the 11th century, including itinerant and courtly minstrels such as the French troubadours and trouvères.

Some of the Puritans, but by no means all, wore their hair closely cropped round the head, and there was thus an obvious contrast between them and the men of courtly fashion with their long ringlets.

It has been suggested that Chrétien invented their affair to supply Guinevere with a courtly extramarital lover.

Due to the influence of these tales, the Fountain of Youth legend was popular in courtly Gothic art, appearing for example on the ivory Casket with Scenes of Romances ( Walters 71264 ) and several ivory mirror-cases, and remained popular through the European Age of Exploration.

Much was made of his courtly love affair with Anna Lopukhina, but the relationship seems to have been platonic and was barely more than another detail in his ideal of chivalric manhood.

It was " the first time that Elisabeth had met with men of character in Franz Joseph's realm, and she became acquainted with an aristocratic independence that scorned to hide its sentiments behind courtly forms of speech ... She felt her innermost soul reach out in sympathy to the proud, steadfast people of this land ..." Unlike the archduchess, who despised the Magyars, Elisabeth felt such an affinity for them that she began to learn Hungarian ; the country reciprocated in its adoration of her.

Saint Valentine ( in Latin, Valentinus ) a widely recognized third century Roman saint commemorated on February 14 and associated since the High Middle Ages with a tradition of courtly love.

The work however is highly satirical and mocks the conventional paradigm of medieval courtly literature by presenting himself as an old, ill, impotent poet as the lover of a young and beautiful maiden, who falls in love with him from his reputation as a poet alone.