In the 1400’s Eleanor of Aquitaine instituted the Court of Love. She was tired of Henry, her husband at the time, so she returned to her hometown Poitu. She was bored in her rainy castle so she established the Court of Love. She started out teaching men proper manners, romance, and how to get ladies to love and adore you. As the court grew the meaning came clear: to teach men in the art of chivalry.
The Court of Love grew huge and everyone always would stop to see the attraction. In my opinion the court of love is outstanding under Eleanor's rule. Eleanors court when she was there was outstanding proven in three ways, the court of love was lively, important, and helped shape society.
First, the Court of Love was lively. The court’s liveliness is demonstrated here: “She established a court of love at her lively castle” (57, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Court of Love). Eleanor of Aquitaine loved color so the court was beautifully designed and had prepossessing patterns all over the walls. Since Eleanor let everyone into the court the place was bustling with men. Occasionally famous people would show up causing a huge attraction. A time when this is shown is when “Marie brought with her a clerk named Andrè the Chaplaine” (34, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Court of Love).…show more content… Back in Eleanor's time women rights were not really a thing. Woman were known as second class citizens, this is clearly shown “women were at best second rate citizens”(55, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Court of Love). The Court of Love helped show men that women aren't worthless and taught them how their leadership was actually quite striking. Without the Court of Love I don’t think men would ever realize how bad they were treating us woman and we would probably never have as many rights as we do
