In the historian Sarah Gristwood’s “The Tudors in Love,” for both monarchs and courtiers the stakes are higher than romance.

When Courtly Love Goes Wrong, It’s Deadly In “Hunting the Falcon,” the historians John Guy and Julia Fox take a fresh look at an infamous Tudor marriage — and find there is indeed more to ...

Sarah Gristwood’s book is animated by a bold idea: that the conventions of courtly love, a literary conceit influenced by the legend of King Arthur and embedded in medieval balladry, shaped the ...

During this period, the concept of courtly love flourished, in which knights and noblemen would express their admiration for noblewomen through poetry, songs, and elaborate gestures.

Boston Baroque’s well-casted and boldly presented “Ariodante” was a musically memorable performance of Handel’s underrated masterpiece.

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Soon, courtly love was popular enough to have its own genre of slightly creepy self-help guides, including one that offered a series of points on how the infatuated courtly lover should behave.

Popularized by medieval Arthurian legends depicting star-crossed lovers Guinevere and Lancelot, expressions of courtly love in 15th- and 16th-century England included romantic language professing ...

Naked embraces and Arthurian fantasies – a Tudor guide to seduction Our all-consuming, ultimately unsustainable ideal of romance can be traced back to courtly love in the time of Henry VIII ...