Dee Salmon
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So taking all this in mind, basically looking back at these ancient civilizations, we know that they didn't romanticize love necessarily.
And it wasn't the same as how we view romantic love today as modern societies do.
But they definitely sowed the seeds of a cultural impact of love and how love was going to be shaped over the next couple of centuries.
And there is like a pivotal time, which we're going to spend a lot of time talking about right now, as to when that happens.
Because like you and I coming into this, we're like, okay, yeah.
Yes, we can see the evidence of the ancient civilizations.
But what was the really major turning point?
Like what really changed it to be like, I want to marry for love and I'm pining over this person and it's not about their dowry or the inheritance of the land.
How did that happen?
Courtly love is so fascinating and it's kind of crazy to see the cultural impact and where it all began.
Basically, who started this idea of courtly love?
So it started in southern France with these basically men
lyrical poet musicians called troubadours they would go around the courts they would sing songs all about this like secretive unrequited and unattainable love but it's always something that was seen outside of marriage yeah exactly which was pretty um interesting for that time because obviously as we said like marriage was like where they all thought everything was going to happen but the rules started to change so as this like
courtly love became like way more popular it kind of fell into the hands of some royals right so there was this queen Eleanor of Aquitaine she was famous for being the first queen of France and then she had a second marriage and moved to England and she became queen of England so she basically took these ideas from France brought it into England and that's kind of where it was started to be practiced in like English courts from like the 1300s to the 1500s
This is what made me like gag at this day.
This queen had a daughter called Marie.
And from what I was reading about this, the only kind of conclusion I could figure out is that they were obsessed with this idea of courtly love and they would like, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, talk about it.
Girlies at brunch.