Courtly love

medieval French poem

medieval European literary conception of love

literary work by Chrétien de Troyes

12th-century Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes

Cligès (also Cligés) is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. It is the second of his five Arthurian romances; Erec and Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. The poem tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice.

Old French poem from the 12th/13th century

13th-century French Arthurian romance

1389 poem written by John Gower

Andreas Capellanus's treatise

anonymous French romance composed between 1390 and 1425