What are the themes and ideas presented in the opening lines of the prologue to The Canterbury Tales?

The Pervasiveness of Courtly Love The phrase “courtly love” refers to a set of ideas about love that was enormously influential on the literature and culture of the Middle Ages. Beginning with the Troubadour poets of southern France in the eleventh century, poets throughout Europe promoted the notions that true love only exists outside of […]

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