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LOVE
&
COURTSHIP
Medieval Courtship VS Modern Courtship

Medieval Modern

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 Medieval Courtship VS Modern Courtship

Medieval Modern

Suitors wooed Lovers show their

interest in each other
their intended nowadays by adding each
with serenades other on Facebook,
and flowery poetry asking each other on
dates, and through text
messaging.
 Medieval Courtship VS Modern Courtship

Medieval Modern
Lovers in the Middle Today, lovers
Ages primarily communicate through
communicated in person, texting, talking on the
or through written phone, and through social
letters and it was more media sites.
of a personal ordeal.
 Medieval Courtship VS Modern Courtship

Medieval Modern
In Medieval courtship, Women can court a man.
men were the ones who
always wooed the women.
 Medieval Courtship (5th century - 15th century)

Male courted female

Serve and honor his lady

like a lord.
Francesco Petrarch
 Italian scholar and poet
Greatest Italian poet of the
14th century

Famous for poetry and

wrote how to woo (seek
favor)
Celebrated his love for his
muse - Laura through a
collection of poems called
Francesco Petrarch Canzoniere. (366 sonnets)
 What is a Sonnet?

It is a poem, often a love poem, of

14 rhyming lines.
Sonnet = Italian sonetto
Meaning little song
 Petrarchan Sonnet
It has 14 lines of iambic pentameter.
DIVISION OF LINES:
8 octave lines - 2 rhymes (ABBA ABBA),
topic of doubt and conflict.
6 Sestet lines = 2 or 3 rhymes pattern
(CDC CDC or CDE DCE), conclusion of
the poem.
 Sonnet

Laura
Translated by Morris Bishop
 Laura
She used to let her golden hair fly free
for the wind to toy and tangle and molest.
Her eyes were brighter than the radiant west.
(Seldom they shine so now.) I used to see
pity look out of those deep eyes on me.
("It was false pity," you would now protest.)
I had love's tinder heaped within my breast;
What wonder that the flame burned furiously?
 Laura
She did not walk in any mortal way,
but with angelic progress. When she spoke,
unearthly voices sang in unison.
She seemed divine among the dreary folk
of earth. You say she is not so today?
Well, though the bow's unbent, the wound
bleeds on.
 Sonnet

WHO IS LAURA?
 Sonnet

Francesco
Petrarchs love.
 Line 1-3

How did the author describe

Laura on the first three lines?
 Line 1-3
Lauras golden hair blowing in the
wind, it describes how
beautiful she is.
Lauras eyes are bright and
glowing, it shows how charming
she is.
 Line 4-8

How did Laura treat him?

 Line 4-8
Laura did not take any notice of him.
seldom, look out those deep eyes
on me
Tinder - the author loves her so
much like a fire but Laura did
not share that love.
 Line 9-13

How did the author

describe Laura?
 Line 9-13

He sees her like an angel

and she sounds like an
angel.
 Line 14

How did the author feel?

 Line 14

He was deeply in love with

Laura and the wound he
has
can never be healed.
 Line 14

He was deeply in love with

Laura and the wound he
has
can never be healed.