Meanings of courtly love in English

The craze for romantic literature, dealing with chivalry and courtly love, was undiminished.

Her words sounded as though they came from some flowery poem of courtly love.

To relieve his tedium, he whistles a tune, a medieval ballad of courtly love.

Jasper loves me, I know that; but it is, as he says, courtly love, from afar.

The cuckolding of heiresses and the wives of great lords was considered the highest form of courtly love.

A tale of courtly love?

The game even proposes a Lover's Solo scenario in which the PC will follow all the steps of courtly love:

It's more like something out of a medieval tale of courtly love, a moral of romantic struggle and triumphant belief.

She had given us a brief rundown on the tradition of courtly love and read us some sonnets by Petrarch and Shakespeare.

Henry, who is normally pompous about the rules of courtly love, seems to side with Compton, who declares himself insulted by the duke.

Though the ideals of this court and those of Christianity are in accord at many points, vet courtly love and Christian morality are irreconcilable.

According to the courtly love tradition, the troubadour is always a mixture of ardent and abject, the woman idealised, her whims his to be obeyed.

"They wrote about chivalric behavior, courtly love, quests fer honor."