Elegant love refers to a way of love that emerged after the end of the eleventh century in Western European Medieval . The main body of love is knights and noble ladies.
A classic example of elegant love is: Romantic Knight Yurichi
When Yurichi was 12 years old, he chose a noble lady to dedicate his love and managed to become a entourage in her palace.
Yuriqi touched the things she had touched, and even secretly drank her foot wash water, but Yuriqi received the mistress scolding him for being rude;
Yuriqi was determined and endured the woman's difficulties. He even cut off one of his fingers and put them in a velvet box to give them to her. In this way, she promised to read the promise of this fingers from time to time
Yuriqi fought all the way and made contributions everywhere, but what he got was the mistress promised him to pretend to be a leper and meet her with a beggar.
The occurrence of elegant love is based on inequality. "What provides this foundation is the relationship between a man with a low social status and a woman with a high social status ". The unequal relationship of
, on the one hand, "male strong men cannot capture the women they like, making it difficult for men to get women out of reach or to get them. At the same time, it is precisely because of their high status and difficult to get them, so it becomes the object that men desire."
On the other hand, a popular concept in Europe at that time: love is a moral ideological power that can make people noble. A romantic hero from the lower class falls in love with a great lady and he wants to work hard to be worthy of her. The process of pursuit is the process of the knight sublimating himself. Therefore, "if a knight falls in love with a lady, he will become better."
In elegant love, the knight is required to be sincere, dedicated and passionate to the hostess, no matter what suffering or humiliation he encounters. He wants to give his wholehearted dedication to his hostess little gifts.
Elegant love is "neither motive nor pursuit of results, but just enjoying love itself."
