Definition of courtly love in English:

courtly love

noun

mass noun

A highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman, first developed by the troubadours of southern France and extensively employed in European literature of the time. The love of the knight for his lady was regarded as an ennobling passion and the relationship was typically unconsummated.
Example sentencesExamples
- The fiddle and harp were the most respectable, played by the troubadours and associated with courtly love.
- In the ‘Franklin's Tale,’ Geoffrey Chaucer satirically paints a picture of a marriage steeped in the tradition of courtly love.
- Yet this text pre-dates the medieval poetry of courtly love by over a thousand years.
- The sense of courtly love as a unique European achievement and hence a key element in establishing European cultural identity was widely discussed in the interwar period.
- The cult of the Virgin in the Middle Ages, he argues, led to the courtly love poets, the troubadours, idealising women in their writing.

Definition of courtly love in US English:

courtly love

nounˈkɔrtli ləvˈkôrtlē ləv

A highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman, first developed by the troubadours of southern France and extensively employed in European literature of the time. The love of the knight for his lady was regarded as an ennobling passion and the relationship was typically unconsummated.
Example sentencesExamples
- The sense of courtly love as a unique European achievement and hence a key element in establishing European cultural identity was widely discussed in the interwar period.
- In the ‘Franklin's Tale,’ Geoffrey Chaucer satirically paints a picture of a marriage steeped in the tradition of courtly love.
- The fiddle and harp were the most respectable, played by the troubadours and associated with courtly love.
- Yet this text pre-dates the medieval poetry of courtly love by over a thousand years.
- The cult of the Virgin in the Middle Ages, he argues, led to the courtly love poets, the troubadours, idealising women in their writing.

单词	courtly love
释义	Definition of courtly love in English: courtly love noun mass noun A highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman, first developed by the troubadours of southern France and extensively employed in European literature of the time. The love of the knight for his lady was regarded as an ennobling passion and the relationship was typically unconsummated. Example sentencesExamples The fiddle and harp were the most respectable, played by the troubadours and associated with courtly love. In the ‘Franklin's Tale,’ Geoffrey Chaucer satirically paints a picture of a marriage steeped in the tradition of courtly love. Yet this text pre-dates the medieval poetry of courtly love by over a thousand years. The sense of courtly love as a unique European achievement and hence a key element in establishing European cultural identity was widely discussed in the interwar period. The cult of the Virgin in the Middle Ages, he argues, led to the courtly love poets, the troubadours, idealising women in their writing. Definition of courtly love in US English: courtly love nounˈkɔrtli ləvˈkôrtlē ləv A highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman, first developed by the troubadours of southern France and extensively employed in European literature of the time. The love of the knight for his lady was regarded as an ennobling passion and the relationship was typically unconsummated. Example sentencesExamples The sense of courtly love as a unique European achievement and hence a key element in establishing European cultural identity was widely discussed in the interwar period. In the ‘Franklin's Tale,’ Geoffrey Chaucer satirically paints a picture of a marriage steeped in the tradition of courtly love. The fiddle and harp were the most respectable, played by the troubadours and associated with courtly love. Yet this text pre-dates the medieval poetry of courtly love by over a thousand years. The cult of the Virgin in the Middle Ages, he argues, led to the courtly love poets, the troubadours, idealising women in their writing.
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