ABSTRACT
Courtly love in poems and love songs was meaningful love, painful love, the love of a man for a woman. In the majority of cases, marriage was a contract without love and the relationship that was established was more of an economic agreement, the joining together of land, assets, and possessions, established through family agreements. Marriage was and had to be a good business agreement. In courtly love, the heart was taken over by the image of the other, and nothing else mattered. J. Campbell tells the story of a gentleman in love with a lady, who, when he declares his feelings to her, received the following reply: “No, I have a lover.” There is another story, also told by Campbell, of a certain troubadour who was in love with a lady whose name was similar to the word “wolf”.
