How do we understand love letters between soldiers? Was the tremendous power that women wielded in courtly love an escapist fantasy or an indication of lived experience? What are the modern ...

In the Middle Ages, educated people communicated their love in verse letters that revealed at once their personal commitments and their commitments to an established form of literary art. Medieval ...

The ring, found in March, is engraved with sprigs of leaves as well as the rhyming motto in French, "Je desir vous Ceruir" A late medieval gold ring engraved with a declaration of love has been ...

Mottos such as "I desire to serve you" and "I wish to obey" were often used by men wishing to serve their ladies as part of a courtly love tradition that swept across medieval Europe. The ...