<P> Courtly love (or fin'amor in Occitan) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry . Medieval literature is filled with examples of knights setting out on adventures and performing various services for ladies because of their "courtly love". This kind of love is originally a literary fiction created for the entertainment of the nobility, but as time passed, these ideas about love changed and attracted a larger audience . In the high Middle Ages, a "game of love" developed around these ideas as a set of social practices . "Loving nobly" was considered to be an enriching and improving practice . </P> <P> Courtly love began in the ducal and princely courts of Aquitaine, Provence, Champagne, ducal Burgundy and the Norman Kingdom of Sicily at the end of the eleventh century . In essence, courtly love was an experience between erotic desire and spiritual attainment, "a love at once illicit and morally elevating, passionate and disciplined, humiliating and exalting, human and transcendent". </P>

Medieval poem where true love is found god is there