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1 Citation The Art of Courtly Love is one of the best books I have ever read. I?m a sucker for literature that way. It was required reading for a class I had in England. It was written in 1170-4 by Andreas Capellanus. He was asked by Countess Marie of Troyes (daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine) to lay down the law on proper courtship rules. The entire culture intrigues me. Up through the 1800?s there was a huge romantic notion about how to court, and how to show that you fancy someone. When in England, I b, technorati.com
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1 Citation My marriage has been to me the most nourishing bread. From my marriage I know much of what can happen between a man and a woman - what healing and wholeness, what forgiveness and what strengthening. But what I?ve read of in old romances has only happened to me in meetings and partings with men who had no claim on me nor I on them. When I read, as a girl, of people wasting away for love, I never believed it. Yet when I was twenty, three days after parting with the man who didn?t love me, I r, technorati.com
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Who?s Afraid of Christine de Pizan? 1 Citation If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons. - Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, 1404 Sometimes described as an early feminist and also as Europe?s first professional female writer, Christine de Pizan was born in Venice in 1365, the daughter of a highly respected court physician and astrologer who sh, technorati.com
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