#Year1210Troubadours also created #CourtlyLove
If they could do that in year 1210, what can we do in a #MergeSortReligions ?? Finnegans Wake is our codekey!
May 11, 2024 at 12:59 AM
#Year1210Troubadours also created #CourtlyLove
If they could do that in year 1210, what can we do in a #MergeSortReligions ?? Finnegans Wake is our codekey!
I’m finally ready to let go of about 30 books I bought for my senior thesis in the 80s. Half primary sources, half secondary, mostly England and France around the 12th century. I just want them to go to a good home.
#medievalSky #medieval #middleAges #ChretienDeTroyes #CourtlyLove
#medievalSky #medieval #middleAges #ChretienDeTroyes #CourtlyLove
October 27, 2024 at 12:31 AM
I’m finally ready to let go of about 30 books I bought for my senior thesis in the 80s. Half primary sources, half secondary, mostly England and France around the 12th century. I just want them to go to a good home.
#medievalSky #medieval #middleAges #ChretienDeTroyes #CourtlyLove
#medievalSky #medieval #middleAges #ChretienDeTroyes #CourtlyLove
DYK the epic poet of #CourtlyLove was Chrétien de Troyes (d.1191)? His patron was Marie de Champagne, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The most famous of his works was about King Arthur, his wife Guinevere, & her lover, Lancelot.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
DYK the epic poet of #CourtlyLove was Chrétien de Troyes (d.1191)? His patron was Marie de Champagne, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The most famous of his works was about King Arthur, his wife Guinevere, & her lover, Lancelot.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK medieval troubadours were the foremost teachers of “fin d’amour”—pure love? In some of their songs (tensons) they debated many questions (jeu parties) about #CourtlyLove, & they argued over the qualities that purified it. Here are a few of the questions they debated:
August 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
DYK medieval troubadours were the foremost teachers of “fin d’amour”—pure love? In some of their songs (tensons) they debated many questions (jeu parties) about #CourtlyLove, & they argued over the qualities that purified it. Here are a few of the questions they debated:
DYK historians disagreed about the purpose of Andreas Cappelanus’ rule book for #CourtlyLove—“De amore”? Some see it as satire ridiculing pretentious ladies of the court. Some see it as a sign of the rise of independence among women.
August 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
DYK historians disagreed about the purpose of Andreas Cappelanus’ rule book for #CourtlyLove—“De amore”? Some see it as satire ridiculing pretentious ladies of the court. Some see it as a sign of the rise of independence among women.
Nevertheless, the mannered expressions of #CourtlyLove in the 8th, 9th, & 10thCs were the foundation for the birth of romance between women & men in the 11th& 12th. All was born in #SameSex relationships between lords & their vassals. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
July 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Nevertheless, the mannered expressions of #CourtlyLove in the 8th, 9th, & 10thCs were the foundation for the birth of romance between women & men in the 11th& 12th. All was born in #SameSex relationships between lords & their vassals. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
DYK In 1152, #EleanorOfAquitaine, granddaughter of William IX married Henry Plantagenet, soon to be King #HenryII? By 1160, the most popular songs, poems, & stories about #CourtlyLove poured from their courts.
#romance #RomanticLove #RomanticNovel
#romance #RomanticLove #RomanticNovel
August 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
DYK In 1152, #EleanorOfAquitaine, granddaughter of William IX married Henry Plantagenet, soon to be King #HenryII? By 1160, the most popular songs, poems, & stories about #CourtlyLove poured from their courts.
#romance #RomanticLove #RomanticNovel
#romance #RomanticLove #RomanticNovel
Their games of #CourtlyLove became legendary & imitated throughout Europe. Likewise, w/the courts of their sons—kings #RichardTheLionHeart (d.1199) & his infamous brother John—who most of us remember as #RobinHood’s archenemy. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #HistSex
August 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Their games of #CourtlyLove became legendary & imitated throughout Europe. Likewise, w/the courts of their sons—kings #RichardTheLionHeart (d.1199) & his infamous brother John—who most of us remember as #RobinHood’s archenemy. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #HistSex
• Fidio x Rococo = MeteorCatcher (yk this one)
• Meia x Giris = CourtlyLove (shared it on Twitter)
• Rococo x Endou = GoalLovers, Catcher² (/j)
• Rococo x Endou x Fidio x Ichinose = International Soccer Freaks
• Tsurugi x Shindou = DevilString, DevilFiddle, DarkSong
• Tsurugi x Tenma = DarkHorse
• Meia x Giris = CourtlyLove (shared it on Twitter)
• Rococo x Endou = GoalLovers, Catcher² (/j)
• Rococo x Endou x Fidio x Ichinose = International Soccer Freaks
• Tsurugi x Shindou = DevilString, DevilFiddle, DarkSong
• Tsurugi x Tenma = DarkHorse
December 22, 2024 at 6:48 PM
• Fidio x Rococo = MeteorCatcher (yk this one)
• Meia x Giris = CourtlyLove (shared it on Twitter)
• Rococo x Endou = GoalLovers, Catcher² (/j)
• Rococo x Endou x Fidio x Ichinose = International Soccer Freaks
• Tsurugi x Shindou = DevilString, DevilFiddle, DarkSong
• Tsurugi x Tenma = DarkHorse
• Meia x Giris = CourtlyLove (shared it on Twitter)
• Rococo x Endou = GoalLovers, Catcher² (/j)
• Rococo x Endou x Fidio x Ichinose = International Soccer Freaks
• Tsurugi x Shindou = DevilString, DevilFiddle, DarkSong
• Tsurugi x Tenma = DarkHorse
A stream of consciousness poem about chivalry in conflict with love in the medieval tales of Lancelot.
poem/photo collage: february 9th, 2023 ©.
#Poetry
#Chivalry
#Lancelot
#Feminism
#CourtlyLove
#GenderRoles
#SmashPatriarchy
poem/photo collage: february 9th, 2023 ©.
#Poetry
#Chivalry
#Lancelot
#Feminism
#CourtlyLove
#GenderRoles
#SmashPatriarchy
November 26, 2024 at 12:59 AM
A stream of consciousness poem about chivalry in conflict with love in the medieval tales of Lancelot.
poem/photo collage: february 9th, 2023 ©.
#Poetry
#Chivalry
#Lancelot
#Feminism
#CourtlyLove
#GenderRoles
#SmashPatriarchy
poem/photo collage: february 9th, 2023 ©.
#Poetry
#Chivalry
#Lancelot
#Feminism
#CourtlyLove
#GenderRoles
#SmashPatriarchy
DYK medieval #CourtlyLove helped maintain an enormous class divide? Like spiritual love & passionate friendships, fin d’amour was aristocratic & very public. All three modes of love were ennobling, but they were not for the poor or the less-than-noble.
August 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
DYK medieval #CourtlyLove helped maintain an enormous class divide? Like spiritual love & passionate friendships, fin d’amour was aristocratic & very public. All three modes of love were ennobling, but they were not for the poor or the less-than-noble.
DYK medieval #CourtlyLove was very much like a joust? It went like this: The knight would pledge his love. The lady would ask him to prove it. The knight would ask her how he should prove it. The lady would set him an arduous task. He would perform the task. Score.
August 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
DYK medieval #CourtlyLove was very much like a joust? It went like this: The knight would pledge his love. The lady would ask him to prove it. The knight would ask her how he should prove it. The lady would set him an arduous task. He would perform the task. Score.
DYK Marie de Champagne commissioned Andreas Capellanus to create a rule book for #CourtlyLove? By 1186, Andreas divided “De amore” into 3 books. In the first, he defined love & offers 8 dialogues between would-be lovers & the women they try to seduce.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
DYK Marie de Champagne commissioned Andreas Capellanus to create a rule book for #CourtlyLove? By 1186, Andreas divided “De amore” into 3 books. In the first, he defined love & offers 8 dialogues between would-be lovers & the women they try to seduce.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
So many fun and informative episodes. Discussing books you love or might fall in love with…check us out! #inwalksawoman #bookpodcasts #history #thedarcymyth #prideandprejudice #romeoandjuliet #eighteenthcenturylit #tristanandiseult #courtlylove
July 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
So many fun and informative episodes. Discussing books you love or might fall in love with…check us out! #inwalksawoman #bookpodcasts #history #thedarcymyth #prideandprejudice #romeoandjuliet #eighteenthcenturylit #tristanandiseult #courtlylove
DYK #troubadours sang about the art of #CourtlyLove across Europe in 12thC, teaching knights how to submit to the tyranny of their married #domina ladies? It was the strategy of lords & the birth of love in marriage. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistMarriage #HistSex
August 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
DYK #troubadours sang about the art of #CourtlyLove across Europe in 12thC, teaching knights how to submit to the tyranny of their married #domina ladies? It was the strategy of lords & the birth of love in marriage. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistMarriage #HistSex
#CourtlyLove became the model for the behavior of courtiers through the Renaissance. It helped stabilize & strengthen the state & w/it, the romantic straight couple was born. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
August 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#CourtlyLove became the model for the behavior of courtiers through the Renaissance. It helped stabilize & strengthen the state & w/it, the romantic straight couple was born. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
DYK the spirit of #CourtlyLove embodied today in America’s most popular kind of novel, the #BodiceRipper? Millions of American women read #RomanceNovels about shy, chaste women who tame the wickedly attractive bad boys in their lives.
August 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
DYK the spirit of #CourtlyLove embodied today in America’s most popular kind of novel, the #BodiceRipper? Millions of American women read #RomanceNovels about shy, chaste women who tame the wickedly attractive bad boys in their lives.
#OTD #TDIH #July15, 1796 #HBD #ThomasBulfinch! #Writers #Mythologists #Mythology #AgeOfChivalry #LegendsOfKingArthur #LegendsOfCharlemagne #RomanceOfTheMiddleAges #GraecoRomanMythology #Chivalry #CourtlyLove
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July 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
DYK the medieval lord’s wife who bent his knights to her will through #CourtlyLove had enormous power? Equal to her husband, she could educate & civilize the horny bachelors who pursued her & bend them to her lord’s as well. But must withhold the ultimate token of love—coitus.
June 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
DYK the medieval lord’s wife who bent his knights to her will through #CourtlyLove had enormous power? Equal to her husband, she could educate & civilize the horny bachelors who pursued her & bend them to her lord’s as well. But must withhold the ultimate token of love—coitus.
In pursuit of the mistress—dominai—knights also pursued the master—dominus. This gave a homoerotic tinge to the game of #CourtlyLove. But it was, in fact, the love of the lord that a young man wished to gain by submitting, bending, & bowing to the will of his lord’s wife.
June 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
In pursuit of the mistress—dominai—knights also pursued the master—dominus. This gave a homoerotic tinge to the game of #CourtlyLove. But it was, in fact, the love of the lord that a young man wished to gain by submitting, bending, & bowing to the will of his lord’s wife.
DYK medieval courtliness & #CourtlyLove were among the most powerful civilizing forces in the West since ancient Rome? In pursuing them, high-placed women demanded unruly throngs of bachelor knights, crude clerics, & blasphemous entertainers civilize themselves.
August 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
DYK medieval courtliness & #CourtlyLove were among the most powerful civilizing forces in the West since ancient Rome? In pursuing them, high-placed women demanded unruly throngs of bachelor knights, crude clerics, & blasphemous entertainers civilize themselves.
DYK in medieval #CourtlyLove, a lover & married lady made love w/letters, songs, poetry, gazes, kisses, embraces, oral sex, & frottage? He would lead, step by step, promise by promise, to more & more intimate caresses. These games often led to orgasm for either or both.
June 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
DYK in medieval #CourtlyLove, a lover & married lady made love w/letters, songs, poetry, gazes, kisses, embraces, oral sex, & frottage? He would lead, step by step, promise by promise, to more & more intimate caresses. These games often led to orgasm for either or both.
The 12thC art of #CourtlyLove was about a knight’s seduction of a lord’s wife by doing difficult tasks for her. It was a lord’s strategy to tame landless men who could stir up trouble unless they had something to do. #GenderHistory #primogeniture
January 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
The 12thC art of #CourtlyLove was about a knight’s seduction of a lord’s wife by doing difficult tasks for her. It was a lord’s strategy to tame landless men who could stir up trouble unless they had something to do. #GenderHistory #primogeniture
But for a while, #CourtlyLove allowed a homeless knight to enter the world of the élite, perform heroic exploits, & gain love—his just reward. His search for a place in the world was an equal match for his beloved’s search for a place for herself. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
August 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
But for a while, #CourtlyLove allowed a homeless knight to enter the world of the élite, perform heroic exploits, & gain love—his just reward. His search for a place in the world was an equal match for his beloved’s search for a place for herself. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist