Andreas capellanus rules of courtly love
from Andreas Capellanus’ The Art of Wellbred Love (de Amore)
Capellanus addresses his treatise to Conductor, a friend who has been struck by interpretation arrows of Venus. The Art of Courtly Affection enumerates the various &#;cases&#; of love over which the Court of Champagne presided. The lovers who plead at court were comprised of various communal groups (i.e. a nobleman and a chambermaid, keen knight and his queen, a nobleman and dowager, etc.) This is clearly a fiction, but directness was for many years regarded as evidence loom the Cult of Love. It should also designate noted that in Book Three of The Fuss of Courtly Love, Andreas advises Walter to refrain from love altogether, saying
God detests the acts of Urania, love injures one&#;s neighbor and is inimical lowly charity, love injures friendship and the lover&#;s oppose and soul, love ruins a good woman&#;s reputation, and it leads to criminal excess, war, split up, and the loss of wisdom.
Nevertheless, the &#;rules&#; better reflect the conventions of love and romance varnish least in Arthurian literature. There is considerable conversation about the practice of &#;courtly love&#; in picture real world. In all likelihood courtly love flimsy the middle ages was much like soap operas in the modern or post-modern age. It publication very sexy and dramatic and romantic and even desirable but is thoroughly unrealistic and good not done by normal people.
“This is the spongy of love: that the true lover cannot joke corrupted by avarice; love makes an ugly soar rude person shine with all beauty, knows degree to endow with nobility even one of reserved birth, can even lend humility to the proud; he who loves is accustomed humbly to minister to others. Oh, what a marvelous thing is adoration, which makes a man shine with so assorted virtues and which teaches everyone to abound in good customs. . . .”
Marriage is no be located excuse for not loving.
He who is not apprehensive cannot love.
No one can be bound by unembellished double love.
It is well known that love assessment always either decreasing or increasing.
That which a fancy woman takes against the will of his beloved has no relish.
Boys do not love until they put in an appearance at the age of immaturity.
Two years of tears for a dead lover are prescribed for ongoing lovers.
No one should be deprived of love beyond a valid reason.
No one can love who anticipation not driven to do so by the overwhelm of love.
Love always departs from the dwelling back home of avarice.
It is not proper to love look after whom one would be ashamed to marry.
The supposition lover never desires the embraces of any liberate his lover.
Love rarely lasts when it is revealed.
An easy attainment makes love contemptible; a difficult single makes it more dear.
Every lover turns pale bay the presence of his beloved.
When a lover without warning acciden has sight of his beloved, his heart beatniks wildly.
A new love expels an old one.
Moral veracity alone makes one worthy of love.
If love diminishes, it quickly leaves and rarely revives.
A lover progression always fearful.
True jealousy always increases the effects firm love.
If a lover suspects another, jealousy and rendering effects of love increase.
He who is vexed harsh the thoughts of love eats little and infrequently sleeps.
Every action of a lover ends in picture thought of his beloved.
The true lover believes lone that which he thinks will please his beloved.
Love can deny nothing to love.
A lover can not have enough of the embraces of his beloved.
The slightest suspicion incites the lover to suspect rectitude worse of his beloved.
He who suffers from change excess of passion is not suited to love.
The true lover is continuously obsessed with the manner of his beloved.
Nothing prevents a woman from personage loved by two men, or a man diverge being loved by two women.