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Love as defined by Andreus Capellanus in The Art of Courtly Love:
Love is a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things the embraces of the other and by common desire to carry out all of love's precepts in the other's embrace.
This website was created for English 551 at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA. In this course, we are studying the practices of everyday life in the Middle Ages. Here you will find information about courtly love. The page was designed by Megan Burdelsky, Bethany Hetrick, and Casey Hamm.
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