Daily Medieval

The title of this blog post is almost "literal" in the sense that the Roman de la Rose was written in two parts: one by Guillaume ...

I mentioned that, for all our talk of courtly love  in the Middle Ages, the only use of the actual phrase was in a single Provençal poem. Th...

"Courtly love" is the phrase used to describe a set of "rules" expressed in medieval literature about the relationship o...