English literature
The works of
Virgil, Horace, and Ovid were read, students studied them. Trained in the classics, but in touch with the
aspirations and realities of medieval society, the clerks created the chivalric romance of love-new
attitude to women. Before, the chansons that were written about war bands had ignored relationships
between sexes. The chivalric romance of lobe is influenced by works of Ovid, the favourite Latin poet in
the MA. The philosophy of Courtly Love perceives sexual love as ennobling, owes its idealism to Plato
and his Neo-Platonist followers. 2 worlds 1) eternal, `ideas'. 2)sense- world of time and change. Soul
cosmic and human, is an intermediary between them. The soul is constantly struggling while the
intellect is changeless and eternal. C.L as a set of ideas appears in the songs of the troubadours in
Provence. C.L is the privilege of the knightly class. The relationship between the lover and his lady is
annaabi.ee 
