Love Through The Ages
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- Created on: 26-09-17 20:12
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- Love Through The Ages
- Love and Chaucer
- 1300's were height of chivalry and courtly love
- courtly love originated in France
- practised 1300-1500 in England
- Arranged marriages were common, marry for money not love
- successful marriage = money and land
- beliefs: marriage should not be deterrent to love, public revelations of love is deadly, love is reinforced by jealousy
- Jousting, form of entertainment, loser forfeits horse and armour, making the winner seem more favourable to the women.
- Chaucer was born in the 1300s
- Canterbury Tales
- Troilus and Criseyede
- "Thus in his heaven he took his delight and smothered her with kisses upon kisses, till gradually he came to know where bliss is
- 1300's were height of chivalry and courtly love
- Modernism Love
- 1910-1960
- 1910, cars, inventions on Einstein, cubism, futurism art
- 1914, climax, young men with potential die in world war 1 (Russian revolution)
- 1918, end war, power shift between Europe and America
- European poets reflect on what they have lost
- American poet reflect on what they have gained
- inspired by industrialisation, globalisation and world wars
- first person narration
- Lady Chatterley's lover, first ****** novel, intercourse on forest floor
- The River Merchants Wife: A Letter (Ezra Pound)
- 1910-1960
- Love and Chaucer
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