At Poitiers, Eleanor and her daughter, Marie de Champagne, promoted a literary movement that celebrated the art of courtly love. “The process of courtly love is a long-standing relationship with standardized procedures; it can be extracted from the literature and tales of love in the medieval period” (Delahoyde). “Courtly Love can be defined by five main characteristics. It was Aristocratic, as its name implies, noble lords and ladies practiced courtly love. It was ritualistic, as couples engaged in a courtly relationship conventionally exchanged gifts and tokens of their affair. It was secretive, as courtly lovers were pledged to strict secrecy. It was adulterous; "Fine love" almost by definition was extramarital. And it was literary, before
