Romeo And Juliet: Courtly Love

Love in the 5th to the 15th A.D. was diverse to today time span. Men back in the Middle Ages didn’t see their spouses all the time which was courtly love. “Women were wooed with gifts of food, money, and clothes during courtship, which could lead directly to the consummation of that love, process explained in a double entendreinon brawdy ballad. ‘In the box he puttes hys offrange.’”(Pikeman 3.) To keep their ladies, they threw in the gifts, till they decide to get married. Also back then you could only date women that were in your family. “It was bad if you were in love with somebody outside or not in your family”(Pikeman 3)It was kind of like Romeo and Juliet, but it was only those two families.What does courtly love actually mean. Some people think it is regard to love. “Courtly love, philosophy of love and code of love making that flourished in France and England during the Middle Ages.” (CEE1). So the “code of love” was just probably a secret of love kept to themselves”Love back then was …show more content…
It will also show these two started in the first place.In Act 1 Scene 1 Page 9 Romeo is in love with Rosaline,but she doesn’t love him back. “Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Dost thou not laugh?” Sometimes people don’t get the first thing that they get, but the second is always the better one. This is what the magic happnes, when Romeo spots Juliet on the other side. “Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.”(Romeo 45.) Romeo glances at this lovely lady standing on the other side with passion and desire.Both of them don’t want to die without love for the last time. “Thus with a kiss I die.”(Romeo 131.) No matter what happens to them they will always love each other forever.In conlusion love has different meanings, ways, and endings. No matter what love is or how it goes it all essense love. The