1. During the Middle Ages, courtly love was embodied in the behavior of a knight toward the fine lady he loved. He would prostrate himself before her, idealize her, carry her favor into battle, but never demonstrate physical love for her. How does Robert's behavior toward Edna fit this pattern?

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Rylee Mason

26 March, 04:22

1. During the Middle Ages, courtly love was embodied in the behavior of a knight toward the fine lady he loved. He would prostrate himself before her, idealize her, carry her favor into battle, but never demonstrate physical love for her. How does Robert's behavior toward Edna fit this pattern?

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Gregory Strickland · Answer 1

Robert spends a lot of time talking about his fiance Edna and worried about everything that happens to him, they are never passionate as they used to be in the relationships of the time.

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Courteous love was a literary concept of medieval Europe that expressed love in a noble, sincere and chivalrous manner, and originated in lyric poetry in the Occitan language. The troubadour, a Provencal poet of noble status, and more respected than commoners minstrels, was the leading figure on this subject. The relationship established between the gentleman and the lady was comparable to the relationship of vassalage. Generally, courteous love was secret and among the members of the nobility; since marriages were arranged between families and performed for convenience, courteous love was not a love blessed by the sacrament of marriage, within formal couples; but, in most cases, adulterer or forbidden.