Minne

“Anyone who has a beautiful woman for his wife or lover ought to be the better for it, for it cannot be right that she should love him after he has lost his fame and his worth… Now more than ever it is of the first importance that your worth should increase!... Now you must not idle your time away, but you must frequent the tournaments, engage in combat, joust hard, whatever it costs you!” - Chrétien de Troyes, (quoted in Marth Yeilding Scribner, Love and Longing in the Age of Chivalry).