Surprise, God might actually be a woman

When I was reading Courtly Love I was very surprised to find out that women had more say in their relationships with their men/knight during this time. It was actually refreshing to know that there wasn't this sense of men over everything. Too often people, myself included, I feel like make the assumption that women did not have any room to speak in their relationships. However, after reading this, I have noticed that women do in fact have a say. They have so much of a say that they had the knights and men in these stories doing whatever they could to win over their hearts. That was also something that I enjoyed seeing was that the stories tended to be more focused on the journey of getting the girl and winning over her heart, rather than getting the girl and into her pants sort of thing.   In Courtly Love it stated what I thought was a cool point in that, "the "symptoms" of love as if it were a sickness." (Schwartz). The author mentioned this point was drawn up by a Latin poet and that it created an element that was special to the stories. That these knights who were trying to win over these girls were in love to the point of it being a sickness. Lovesick is a term that I think can be used today but as more of a way of saying someone has a crush not actually being in love with the person.