Secular acts of resistance and focus on women

Question 1

Fin’ Amor

Answer 1

• the refinement of love, Plato ascend – Diotima’s love and move towards refined love

The beloved becomes the human beloved – love for human beings, between men and women

Passion /eros love is embraced – passion for war, food, sex, and women

Question 2

women

Answer 2

• Women are given power, the virgin mary

- Women can pull the knight up and make them more refined in their love

Question 3

courtly love

Answer 3

The nobility called knights

Question 4

Ennobling love –

Answer 4

• origins of courtly writing

- This ties us to a more modern understanding of courtly love

Question 5

age

Answer 5

late ages, medieval period

Question 6

song of roland

Answer 6

• desire to go to war, the level of warfare of killing, love of rape
  Women

Question 7

song of roland

- women

Answer 7

• In the 11th century held up in high regard as the pure beautiful saints or looked at as whores
• Sexuality – sinful even in marriage, important for the continuous population but if you enjoy it for lust it is wrong
• Nobilities mistress – looking for love outside of marriage
• Marriage – just a loveless contract, wanted to make sure children were from the lord

Question 8

Early Modern Europe - Romantic Period

- women

Answer 8

• Women as a muse – ascent to “the Good” through virtue
  An inspiration for art, poetry
  all artistic endeavours were rooted in women and holding them up in high regard

Question 9

Early Modern Europe - Romantic Period

- Love is a transformative force

Answer 9

• to bring action about change and increase virtuous behaviour
• Women were not whores they were an object that was a refinement
• Through the action of virtue – women were considered virtuous
• There was a shift in how women were viewed

Question 10

Early Modern Europe - Romantic Period

- elements

Answer 10

• Nature – back to the land movement, find humanity through nature

Question 11

aesthetic

Answer 11

• Sensual – visual, olfactory, auditory, taste, touch
• Feelings – reflects his emotions
• The journey – does not want to end the product, wants the process – spontaneity (which happens out of the blue), children, madness (not rational)

Question 12

Weather and romantic love

Answer 12

• Eros – longing only fulfilled when with the beloved, obsession and possessive, seen as an “it”
• Aphrodite Pandemos – seductive, self-absorbed