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1 Identify and explain the significance of the following passage:
“The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number; there was man, woman, and the union of the two”
2)Identify and explain the significance of the following passage:
“I have come far in search of you and if you are worthy and courtly, no emperor, count or king will have felt as much joy or happiness as you, for I love you above all else.”
3)Identify and explain the significance of the following passage:
“When he, mistrusting lest her steps might stray,
And gladsome of the gylmpse of dawning day,
His longing eyes, impatient, backward cast
To catch a lover’s look, but look’d his last”
4) Identify and explain the significance of the following passage:
“Vassal, you who have wounded me, let this be your fate. May you never find a cure, nor may any herb, root, doctor, or potion ever heal the wound you have in your thigh until you are cured by a woman who will suffer for your love more pain and anguish than any other woman has ever known, and you will suffer likewise for her…”
5) Name and describe three features of Courtly Love
6) Describe Aristophanes’s explanation of love in Plato’s Symposium.
7) Describe three of the rules of Courtly Love according to Andreas Capellanus.
8) What is Capulet’s response when Paris asks for Juliet’s hand in marriage? Why is Capulet’s answer significant?
9) Describe Juliet’s relationship with her parents in Romeo and Juliet.
10) Describe the historical development of Courtly Love. When and where did the style develop, and why?