Ep 18 Debrief: Valentine's Day: Courtly Love Myths vs. Lived Medieval Marriage
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Ep 18 Debrief: Valentine's Day: Courtly Love Myths vs. Lived Medieval Marriage
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Courtly Love Myths vs. Lived Medieval Marriage (Valentine’s Debrief)
Valentine’s Day sells us a medieval love story: longing, poetry, destiny… and maybe a tasteful lute in the background.
But medieval marriage? That was often a household institution—built for property, kin networks, labor, inheritance, and survival—with romance as a sometimes-guest, not the foundation.
In this Debrief, we rip the fig leaf off the most persistent Valentine myth: that “courtly love” equals medieval reality. We break down how courtly love worked as an elite genre (coded devotion, distance, performance), why that genre stuck to February like cultural glue, and how modern Valentine’s Day mass-markets a romance script that was never meant to fit most people’s lives in the first place.
Music Credits:
- "Our Story Begins" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Music track: lavender by massobeats Source: https://freetouse.com/music Royalty Free Music for Video (Safe)