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A romantic convention Jiang describes as publicly professed devotion that is not yet consummated sexually.
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Courtly love
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Also, historically, this is the time of the courtly love tradition, courtly love tradition. So you're supposed to like just worship a woman, but..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Also, historically, this is the time of the courtly love tradition, courtly love tradition. So you're supposed to like just worship a woman, but..."
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Jiang situates Dante in the courtly-love tradition, where one praises and worships an unattainable woman from afar rather than trying to possess her.
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He defines courtly love here as a convention of romantic declaration that is professed but not consummated sexually.
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"Also, historically, this is the time of the courtly love tradition, courtly love tradition. So you're supposed to like just worship a woman, but..."
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"...her lover um at this time in history there's something called courtly love which is like you know just romantic uh you write romantic..."
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"It's actually the opposite. This is the courtly love tradition, right?"
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"But the courtly love tradition is one part of the Middle Ages. It's not all the Middle Ages. The whole idea of a feudal..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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