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Love “from afar” - a type of desire in which the beloved is distant, often unattainable, and idealized.
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A medieval literary tradition that portrays love as noble, refined, and often secret - usually involving a knight devoted to a lady of higher status.
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A poet-musician from southern France who composed and performed songs about love in the Middle Ages.
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Northern French poet-musicians who were influenced by the troubadours but wrote in a different dialect.
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Short narrative poems (often about love, secrecy, and transformation) associated especially with Marie de France.
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German lyric poetry about courtly love, performed by noble poet-singers.
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A female peasant or country girl - often portrayed differently from the noble lady in courtly love poetry.
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The everyday spoken language of a region (like Italian or French), rather than Latin - significant because many medieval poets chose to write in it.
