Courtly Love

Courtly Love is the set of ideas and rules about love. Troubadour poets promoted the idea that the true love only exists outside marriage. The Courtly Love relationship is not between husband and wife.
It is interesting that in contrast to earlier literature true love may be idealized and spiritual, and may exist without ever being physically consummated. It is kind of protective relationship "...so that no blame shoud touch her." ( Bernart de Ventadorn, Poem 24, 32).
In contrast to Beowulf or Iliad this culture nobilities women (the idea that a man becomes the servant of the lady he love…