courtly love

English

Noun

courtly love (uncountable)

1. A mediaeval European conception of noble and chivalrous love, generally secret and between members of the nobility.
   • 2005, Slavoj Žižek, The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality, Verso, →ISBN, page 89:

     The impression that courtly love is out of date, long superseded by modern manners, is a lure blinding us to how the logic of courtly love still defines the parameters within which the two sexes relate to each other.

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: amor cortès m
• Dutch: hoofse liefde f
• Finnish: hovirakkaus
• French: amour courtois (fr) m
• German: Minne (de) f
• Italian: amor cortese m
• Occitan: fin'amor m
• Polish: miłość dworska f
• Portuguese: amor cortês m
• Russian: куртуа́зная любо́вь f (kurtuáznaja ljubóvʹ)
• Spanish: amor cortés m

Further reading

• courtly love on Wikipedia.Wikipedia