In the historian Sarah Gristwood’s “The Tudors in Love,” for both monarchs and courtiers the stakes are higher than romance. Card one, clockwise from top: Henry VIII; Mary I; Queen Elizabeth I. Card ...
It’s Valentine’s Day, and it’s snowing. No problem. I’ve curled up with a box of chocolates and a couple of good books. Today, they’re all about courtly love. Back in the 12th century, in the age of ...
PrayerSong explores Valentine's Day's evolution from ancient Roman rituals to a modern celebration, highlighting music's role ...
Last year I was leading a student through the dark wood of postmodern theory. A week or two into the term, he observed that postmodernism felt like a rarefied form of courtly love. Whatever they call ...
On April 27, Boston Baroque presented a thrilling production of one of the gems of baroque opera, George Frideric Handel’s opera “Ariodante,” which is a tale of love’s triumph over evil set in ...
When we read about the declining global birth rate, the idea of romantic love comes into question. Do “love and marriage” ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Folger Consort, the award-winning early music ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library, invites audiences to celebrate romance with the program ...
Love and loss, beauty and time solemnize every act, every appreciation–a kind of talmudic connoisseurship attentive to the scent, the overtone, the implication of every gesture. Feeling is meaning–and ...
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