Sunday, September 21, 2008
Love during Medieval Times was considered to be pleasured, suffered, obsessed with, and most of the time it was kept secret by the lover's. According to some, "the easy attainment of love makes it of little value; difficulty of attainment makes it prized". So in order for you to be "loved forever", you had to play "hard to get". Even today we pass this saying to our daughters.
At that time love and marriage had nothing in common; a Countess once said "we declare that love cannot exist between two people who are married to each other".
This is because at the time when the wife was disobedient, she would be beaten by her husband. An example of this from the 14th century, "Her husband consulted a surgeon and made a deal for the mending of two broken legs. He then went home and broke both his wife's legs with a pestle, remarking that in the future she wouldn't go far to break his commandment".
In other manuscripts you find other names for love, like courtly love which is believed to be the starting point of the kind of love we know today.
For me it is very interesting how things change so dramatically. Before, the women were beaten when disobedient to their husbands. Today, the law is by our side most of the time. One thing is for sure, it doesn't matter how love is view or how it comes to you. Everybody has the same fate... to fall in love.
from the movie "Ever After"
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