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===Female-sex-favoritism encoded into chivalry=== | ===Female-sex-favoritism encoded into chivalry=== | ||
Marie directs her chaplain Andreas Capellanus (André the chaplain) to write, "The Art of Courtly Love", which established a code of female-sex-favoratist chivalric codes. Chivalry had existed before massive female-sex-favoritism, in the form of general knightly duties. However, these new chivalric codes were female-sex-favoritist, though arguably this favoritism chiefly applied to women of the upper classes, as Andreas considered peasants to be mere fornicating beasts that are uncapable of love, and recommends that a knight who falls in love with a peasant | Marie directs her chaplain Andreas Capellanus (André the chaplain) to write, "The Art of Courtly Love", which established a code of female-sex-favoratist chivalric codes. Chivalry had existed before massive female-sex-favoritism, in the form of general knightly duties. However, these new chivalric codes were female-sex-favoritist, though arguably this favoritism chiefly applied to women of the upper classes, as Andreas considered peasants to be mere fornicating beasts that are uncapable of love, and recommends that a knight who falls in love with a peasant woman should lure her to a quiet place with honeyed words and "[should] not hesitate to take what you want by force."<ref>http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/andreas/de_amore.html</ref> | ||
According to Jennifer Wollock, an author on chivalry, chivalrous love stories became popular in the late Middle Ages, and showed particularly through the contents of women's libraries. | According to Jennifer Wollock, an author on chivalry, chivalrous love stories became popular in the late Middle Ages, and showed particularly through the contents of women's libraries. | ||