What was "courtly love" ?
Correct answer: C. a literary convention based on the code of behavior associated with chivalrous romance
- A. a type of literature concerned with the behavior of anchorites
- B. a type of early literature produced solely by medieval women writers
- C. a literary convention based on the code of behavior associated with chivalrous romance
- D. a method of oral transmission
Explanation
Courtly love was a literary ideal shaped by chivalric conduct, in which the lover served and praised an often socially superior beloved. It was not a method of oral transmission or a genre limited to women writers.
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