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The Medieval Love Debate exhibition, now open at Longleat House, centres on a rare manuscript known as MS 258. The digital exhibition is permanently available at ...
The University of Birmingham and Longleat House have collaborated on a new project re-examining the famous medieval poem, La Belle Dame sans Mercy.
Courtly Love and Medieval Romances: Boston Baroque Presents Handel’s ‘Ariodante’ By Lara R. Tan, Crimson Staff Writer May 27, 2025 ...
Know the real history of Saint Valentine and the origin of Valentine’s Day. Learn how this day became a symbol of love, romance, and devotion over the centuries.
Bouquets of flowers and chocolate boxes, garish pink bunting and teddy bears clutching plushie hearts. For the first two weeks of February, the paraphernalia of romance is inescapable. Brits have – if ...
But how did this shape come to symbolise love? The oldest known image of the heart shape is on a coin dating back to 510-470BC, discovered in the ancient Roman city of Cyrene, near what is now ...
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Guinevere’s romance with Sir Lancelot is a good example of courtly love, as is the tale of Tristan and Isolde (though both of those cases did involve adultery).
Under the Mediterranean sun he devised a light-hearted confection, part courtly love, part saturnine comedy, part glorification of medieval Provence.
A 13th or 14th Century medieval brooch inscribed with words of love from the age of chivalry has been discovered in a field. The "chunky wodge of gold" was unearthed by a metal detectorist in a ...
Getty Images Courtly love was a code that prescribed the behaviour of ladies and their lovers at a time of arranged marriages, with the love supposed to be noble and unconsummated ...