This week’s Continuum is devoted to music of love from a show first aired in 2011. CONTINUUM: Troubadours, Trouvères, And Minnesingers | WWNO Search Query Show Search ...

When most people think about medieval marriages they are either practical, cold, and loveless, or the idealised “courtly love” of chivalric knights and damsels in distress.

Sarah Gristwood’s book is animated by a bold idea: that the conventions of courtly love, a literary conceit influenced by the legend of King Arthur and embedded in medieval balladry, shaped the ...

Their ardor follows the “courtly love” mode of French troubadours in the 12th and 13th centuries. Dante’s feat is to transform routine praise into “what has never been said of any woman ...

“In medieval times, passionate love was seen as a sort of affliction. ... For men, their lady was not merely the object of their desire, as in courtly love; she became more important to them than God.

On April 27, Boston Baroque presented a thrilling production of one of the gems of baroque opera, George Frideric Handel’s opera “Ariodante,” which is a tale of love’s triumph over evil ...

Its Anglo-Norman inscription was translated as "a token between a lover and beloved", although the words were designed to be worn on the inside A 13th or 14th Century medieval brooch inscribed ...

Jules Massenet: Grisélidis album review — courtly love and high emotion in medieval Provence. This well-cast recording from Palazzetto Bru Zane has done the composer’s opera proud.

A late medieval gold ring engraved with a declaration of love has been found by a metal detectorist. The motto was written in French, the language of courtly love. Translated it means "I desire to ...

A late medieval gold ring engraved with a declaration of love has been found by a metal detectorist. The motto was written in French, the language of courtly love.