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  • 41un courtly — index disorderly, inelegant, presumptuous, provincial, uncouth Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 42Art of Courtly Love — The Art Of Cortly Love Written by Andreas Cappallanus between 1174 and 1186 for Marie de Champagne. The work speaks of the relations between the sexes, parodying Ovid’s Art of Love. He provided 31 rules for loving, Amongst his dialogues and… …

    Medieval glossary

  • 43courtlylove — courtly love n. An idealized and often illicit form of love celebrated in the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in which a knight or courtier devotes himself to a noblewoman who is usually married and feigns indifference to… …

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  • 44Curialis — Courtly. An 11c term indicating a change in ways of thinking. Although the court remained a military institution, ideas about knighthood, politeness and diffidence were coming into focus. Cf. Elegantia morum …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 45allemande — courtly baroque dance in which the arms are interlaced Dance Styles …

    Phrontistery dictionary

  • 46courtliness — courtly ► ADJECTIVE (courtlier, courtliest) ▪ very dignified and polite. DERIVATIVES courtliness noun …

    English terms dictionary

  • 47English literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …

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  • 48German literature — Introduction       German literature comprises the written works of the German speaking peoples of central Europe. It has shared the fate of German politics and history: fragmentation and discontinuity. Germany did not become a modern nation… …

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  • 49arts, East Asian — Introduction       music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature.       Some studies of East Asia… …

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  • 50Andreas Capellanus — (fl. 1180–1190)    Andreas Capellanus is known to us only through his famous Latin treatise De amore, or De arte honeste amandi (Art of Courtly Love), from ca. 1185–90. Both in content and structure based on Ovid’s Ars amatoria and Remedia amoris …

    Encyclopedia of medieval literature