id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4784 Courtly love - Wikipedia .html text/html 5435 507 73 Medieval literature is filled with examples of knights setting out on adventures and performing various deeds or services for ladies because of their "courtly love". While its origin is uncertain, the term amour courtois ("courtly love") was given greater popularity by Gaston Paris[5] in his 1883 article "Études sur les romans de la Table Ronde: Lancelot du Lac, II: Le conte de la charrette", a treatise inspecting Chrétien de Troyes's Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (1177). The literary convention of courtly love can be found in most of the major authors of the Middle Ages such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Dante, Marie de France, Chretien de Troyes, Gottfried von Strassburg and Thomas Malory. The medieval genres in which courtly love conventions can be found include the lyric, the romance and the allegory. ^ Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love (New York: Columbia University Press, 1964), p. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4784.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4784.txt