Wonder no more:
According to Williams the modern view of romantic love had its source in Dante’s experience of falling in love with Beatrice and his interpretation of this as an experience of grace and salvation. “He is the spring of all modern love literature.”3 Williams claims that the common experience of falling in love can […]

Perfectly Liberated Lady Love
In its essential nature, courtly love, or fin’ amors, as the Provencal poets called it, was the expression of the knightly worship of a refining ideal embodied in the person of the beloved. Only a truly noble nature could generate and nurture such a love; only a woman of magnanimity of spirit […]

When and why did it become important for everybody to constantly “express themselves?” Why is that the end-all be-all of everything nowadays? What is it, exactly, that people get from expressing themselves that is so damned important?
What if you don’t have anything to express - does that mean you have no self? What if your […]

One Love To Rule Them All:
The medieval world was therefore part of a multifaceted and hierarchical universe in which all elements were bound together in a “great chain of being.” The force which bound all these elements together was love, also called caritas or charity, what St. Augustine (354-430 A.D.) called the whole motion of […]