When we say 'courtly love', what are we actually talking about?

当我们说“宫廷爱情”时，我们实际上在谈论什么？

Do you think courtly love is still relevant today?

你认为宫廷爱情在今天仍然重要吗？

Another theory of courtly love poetry is that it's actually an allegory that depicts the beliefs of the Cathars.

另一种关于宫廷爱情诗的理论是，它实际上是一个寓言，描绘了卡特里派的信仰。

Prior to courtly love, women appeared in medieval literature as secondary characters and as a possession of either their father or their husband.

在宫廷爱情出现之前，女性在中世纪文学中是次要角色，是她们的父亲或丈夫的财产。

As one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages, Eleanor of Aquitaine's role in developing the genre of courtly love is still controversial.

作为中世纪最有权势的女性之一，阿基坦的埃莉诺在宫廷爱情流派发展中的作用仍然存在争议。

Although they didn't refer to it as 'courtly love poetry' — to them it was simply poetry, albeit very different than the usual literature for that time.

尽管他们没有称之为“宫廷爱情诗”——对他们来说，这只是诗歌，尽管与当时的普通文学作品非常不同。

And overall makes the love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere not a bad thing at all, but within the chivalric bounds of courtly love, which ultimately makes Lancelot more chivalrous.

总的来说，兰斯洛特和格温娜维尔之间的爱情根本不是一件坏事，而是在宫廷爱情的骑士精神范围内，这最终使兰斯洛特更有骑士风度。

These stories show the dichotomy between courtly love, where an affair was no big deal, and the Christian value of fidelity to one spouse in a way that earlier versions did not.

这些故事展示了宫廷爱情（婚外情没什么大不了的）和基督教对配偶忠诚的价值之间的二分法，这是早期版本所没有的。

Another aspect of the genre, though, suggests that if courtly love was a game invented by women, they were both the prize and the judge, which elevates their status.

然而，这一类型的另一个方面表明，如果宫廷爱情是一种由女性发明的游戏，那么她们既是奖品又是裁判，这提升了她们的地位。

My name is Kelly, and in honor of Valentine's Day and the season of love, we're going to have a look at the literary genre of courtly love from the High Middle Ages.

我是凯利，为了庆祝情人节和爱情的季节，我们将看看中世纪盛期的宫廷爱情文学流派。

For instance, the Knight’s tale of courtly love, chivalry, and destiny riffs on romance, while the tales of working-class narrators are generally comedies filled with scatological language, sexual deviance, and slapstick.

例如，骑士的宫廷爱情、骑士精神和命运的故事都是浪漫主义的即兴表演，而工人阶级叙述者的故事通常是充满下流语言、性越轨和闹剧的喜剧。

In the Middle Ages, women were generally belittled and devalued, but through the poetry of courtly love, they were elevated in a way that their culture did not support before.

在中世纪，女性通常被轻视和贬低，但通过宫廷爱情的诗歌，她们以一种他们的文化以前不支持的方式被提升。

There is no doubt that Eleanor inspired Bernard de Ventadour, and it is very likely that she and her daughter, Marie de Champagne, inspired the greatest and most influential works of courtly love literature.

毫无疑问，埃莉诺启发了伯纳德·德·文塔杜尔，很有可能是她和她的女儿玛丽·德·香槟启发了宫廷爱情文学中最伟大、最有影响力的作品。

Women reigned supreme in courtly love poetry, regardless of the purpose of the literature — whether as a game of the court or a realistic reflection of the beliefs of the time.

女性在宫廷爱情诗中占据着至高无上的地位，不管文学的目的是什么——无论是作为宫廷的游戏，还是对当时信仰的现实反映。

Well, the church had a suspicion that Eleanor and Marie were sympathizers, and catharism flourished during the time and in the region that Eleanor held her courts, and at the time, courtly love poetry appeared.

教会怀疑埃莉诺和玛丽是同情者，在埃莉诺掌权的那个时代和地区，卡特里派盛行，宫廷情诗也出现了。

The emergence of courtly love in southern France in the 12th century is all thanks to the troubadours, or poet-minstrels, who would either travel from town to town or be retained by a local court to provide their entertainment.

12 世纪法国南部宫廷爱情的兴起都要归功于吟游诗人，或吟游诗人，他们要么从一个城镇旅行到另一个城镇，要么被当地宫廷聘请来提供娱乐。

Although women would again be devalued by the end of the Middle Ages, the idealized vision of womanhood as defined by courtly love poetry was retained and influences romantic songs and poems up through the present day.

尽管到中世纪末期，女性的地位再次被贬低，但宫廷爱情诗所定义的理想化的女性形象被保留了下来，并影响了直到今天的浪漫歌曲和诗歌。