HELP!!! Romance and Courtly Love in the Middle Ages/Medieval Times?
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"The Renaissance" by Will Durant\n"The Book of the Courtier" by Baldesar Castiglione\n\nboth these books should be able to help you. Good Luck
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Why don't you try looking for poems written during the Renaissance.  It is possible to find some thematically linked poems there. You have to do some work on your own.
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Hello! I found this link very insteresting, hope you like it too. It has all the answers you are looking for.\n\nhttp://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/valentine
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Romance plays a huge role in my life, I guess I'm the last of a dying breed....I enjoy the romance of the soul...the romance of words...and the fabled Knight in shinning Armour...Does this mean I'm a "Push-over"...no
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Friar Lawrence is the easiest place to start - he hides the wedding from their families in the hope that this will 'turn your households rancour into pure love' - think about his job as a (catholic) priest - he should be trying to bring the families together as soon as possible and not enabling the children (Juliet is only 13) to go behind their parent's backs. Once again he shows himself in the guise of a deceiver by proposing the sleeping potion in order to fake Juliet's death - surely he would have done better to go and tell the families of the marriage then?\n\nRomeo marries Juliet days after being spurned by another girl - Rosaline - scientists now suggest it takes a year t fall in love with someone so surely he is just marrying Juliet out of lust.\n\nBoth Romeo and Juliet allow themselves to be controlled by others - Shakespeare in the opening chous refers to them as star crossed - suggesting they are controlled by fate but then is that what you expect from a hero and heroine? Our hero's are people who we admire for their strength and courage - do Romeo and Juliet's actions fit with this?\n\nPerhaps the central flaw is` that the characters allow themselves to be controlled by others - just as Shakespeare himself was controlled by his patrons.
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Please refer to :\nhttp://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_era\nYou'll get all the details you sekk.
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That also depends on what you mean by "medieval people"....\n\nI presume we're talking about medieval people in England, and you should be aware that English changed rapidly over the years that you might consider to be 'medieval times'.\n\nThe venerable Bede, a monk who lived in 7th/8th centuries,  wrote 'English' in a way almost totally unrecognisable even to people like Chaucer who lived from 1343-1400.\n\nBede is probably pre-medieval, I suppose for England Medieval means 900-1485 or so (the end of the wars of the Roses- our little mini-civil war, I think that's the date).  In the 10th century there were all kinds of viking invasions to England, which changed the language in one way, then in 1066 the normans conquered English bringing in alot of french influence to the language which is why its so different. between Bede and Chaucer, Chaucer and, i dunno, Shakespeare. (circa 1600- which is Early modern, not medieval- as the language mixed.\n\nLook at the history bit of this:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language\n\nSo... what do you mean by medieval?  That;s the thing. But i suppose Chaucer is what you want, also, look up the "Magna Carta" from 1215, it was the legal document defining the balance of power between the King and the aristocracy at the time of King John (in case you didnt know)
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Hi.\n\nThere's plenty of information over this topic in various search engines.\nhttp://www.google.com/search?q=History+valentines+wikipedia&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%2BHistory+valentines\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%2BHistory+valentines+wiki\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=+site:dmoz.org+History+valentines\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=History+valentines\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=+site:answers.com+%2BHistory+valentines\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=History+valentines+forum\nhttp://answers.google.com/answers/search?q=History+valentines&qtype=all&num=100&sort=qeprice%3AA%3AR%3Ad1\nhttp://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=History+valentines
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go to the SCA website. they are a group that recreats life in the middle ages. sca stands for society of/for creative achronisms ( or something like that)
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OK, I've got some ideas for you.  Links are numbered below.\n\nFirst of all, in the Middle Ages towns would put on what are called cycles of mystery plays, which were collections of short plays that told Bible stories.  I've linked to a page that has the York cycle in a modern translation.  I would think that if you did some creative cutting, you could have an excellent play (and an excellent report if you included some information on mystery plays.)  (1.)\n\nMiddle Ages cooking was notorious for being either very simple (for the common man) or extremely complicated (for the nobility).  I'm giving you a website that has lots of recipes.  (2.)  Also, I'm going to give you a link to a page that has a VERY easy recipe for baked pears, with both the original recipe from a 14th century French book and a modern translation. (3.)\n\nFor music, you are going to have to do a little more research.  I'm including a page that has a lot of good resources listed.  (4.)
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ooh i used to read a lot of romance novels.Mainly from shilloute and harlequin..  This one book i read is called PS I love you. i tried finding it on the net and its either from the above mentioned but i cant find it.:( anyways another good author that u would enjoy and has an excellent series of books is VC Andrews. She has many good stories that a romantic that young adults would enjoy:)
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Medieval Guilds were centered on trades mostly. So you could try the merchants guild. They were very strong in advocating their rights as to the privileges of the middle class. Especially when it came to not only ownership of land but also the ability to determine their own destiny.
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I know a little bit of it.  The Renaissance was a big period of time, so I do not know what information you need.  IM me on one of the following instant messengers:\n\nAIM - pigger186\nYahoo! - knockitoffnow89\nMSN - knockitoffnow89@yahoo.com\n\nOr... email me: knockitoffnow89@yahoo.com
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You might try Literotica.com It's free, and they have a room for every kink...even if what you're into is moonlight and roses and a chaste kiss on the hand. ;)
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I'm not sure what your question is, but for information about the story of the Wife of Bath from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales check out the links below.\n\nShe is a very interesting character.
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Spell the word 'Medieval' correctly and you might find a bigger search you thick w****r!!!!
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I enjoy reading about pioneer hardships, frontier life, hunting, home tending without modern conveniences, that sort of thing. Now, I have never read a historical fantasy novel from this genre and I think it would be cool. The research would probably be more abundantly available to you too, than going all the way back to the 1300's or whatever. I am a 40 yr old female, but you said no one responded before so I'm letting you know.\nI forgot-what shouldn't be there? I have had enough of bodice ripping romance.