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Marie directs her chaplain Andreas Capellanus (André The Chaplain) to write, "The Art of Courtly Love", which initially viewed by scholars as a serious text of medieval chivalry, has come to be viewed as a parody,<ref>http://cola.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl513/courtly/courtly.htm</ref> warning young men of the true nature of established, fairly neutral chivalric codes.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Capellanus</ref> Andreas painted peasants as fornicating beasts that are incapable 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> | Marie directs her chaplain Andreas Capellanus (André The Chaplain) to write, "The Art of Courtly Love", which, while initially viewed by scholars as a serious text of medieval chivalry, has come to be largely viewed as a parody,<ref>http://cola.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl513/courtly/courtly.htm</ref> warning young men of the true nature of established, fairly neutral chivalric codes.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Capellanus</ref> Andreas painted peasants as fornicating beasts that are incapable 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> | ||
After extolling some of the virtues of love, the book concludes with Andreas ultimately advising men to forgo love for religious and health reasons and apparently ends with a "misogynistic tirade" against women. | After extolling some of the virtues of love, the book concludes with Andreas ultimately advising men to forgo love for religious and health reasons and apparently ends with a "misogynistic tirade" against women. | ||