Re: Courtly behavior (fwd)

[clevin@ripco.com (Craig Levin)]

Poster: clevin@ripco.com (Craig Levin)

AEdric the Grene:

> Ah, I think I realise we're talking at slight cross-purposes.  I agree with
> everything you say for history.  But, where I differ is in thinking that
> one need not go into doing the courtly love thing while doing the chivalry
> thing *in re-creation*.  Even not doing that it seems that at least Diana
> Listmaker as far back as AS V (in an article in _The_Known_World_Handbook_)
> was suggesting a heavily modified form of Courtly Love in the SCA where
> one's greatest love was for one's actual love.  (I may be misremembering as
> I can't currently check my copy, having loaned it to another SCA friend,
> but I seem to remember that being the upshot of it.)  One can argue whether
> or not publishing it in the general-purpose SCA resource is an endorsement
> of the concept, but it seems like most people would go with it initially
> (at least until another pushed them otherwise or they did their own
> research).  So, I guess what it comes down to is should one have to commit
> to the all-or-nothing marriage of Courtly Love and Chivalry as is
> historical?  Or, are they seperable/modifiable for re-creation?  I believe
> the latter.

I think Diana Listmaker's essay is in my new copy of the KWH.
It's not a bad concept (and, to be sure, I have no problem with
being in love in and out of the SCA with the same wonderful
woman!), on the face of it.

If anyone wants to do some research on courtly love and its
course through history and literature, I recommend The Allegory
of Love, by CS Lewis, who did a lot more than write the Narnia
books. Also, a book often quoted and cited by scholars of courtly
love, Andrew the Chaplain's On Courtly Love, is presently in
print. I think both Border's and Barnes and Noble sell copies. 

As to the problem of what to do while recreating, as opposed to
researching, then I really don't know. 

Pedro
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