The Social Causation of the Courtly Love Complex

How to account for the courtly love complex of the troubadours and minnesingers has been an unsolved puzzle ever since the romanticists discovered it as a scholarly problem. For about three generations, in the 12th and 13th centuries, Provençal and German lyrical poetry was preoccupied with a strangely uneven love pattern. In the classic version of this poetry, the male lover presents himself as engrossed in a yearning desire for the love of an exceedingly beautiful and perfect woman whose strange emotional aloofness and high social status make her appear hopelessly distant. But the frustrated and sorrowful lover cannot overcome his fascination and renders faithful 'love service' to this 'high-minded' and exacting lady who reciprocates in a surprising manner: She does not grant him the amorous 'reward' which he craves, but she gives him what immeasurably increases his 'worth': She rewards him with approval and reassurance. The great lady accepts him as being worthy of her attention, but only at the price of behavioral restraint and refinement of manners, that is, at the price ofcourtoisbehavior. As the contemporaries put it,courtoisieis the result of courtly love

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