
Medieval emotions: were they like our own?
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The Emotions of Romantic Love
It's so difficult to really reconstruct what the the feelings f of love that are expressed in the text sometimes seem so artificial and feel alien us. I think the closest thing that i managed to find in exploring that emotion was the story of ese, these two poets, leothan and curthe am. And it's a very beautiful set of poems where they do seem to be struggling with lust for each other, and, you know, potentially love for each other. But ultimately, she chooses god and chooses the religious life, and carithe is sent packing em. It's different from our ideas of romantic love em but there clearly are people that are grappling with er these kinds of emotions
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