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Marriage as the equivalent of love seems to be a product of colonial discourses; ‘savages’ had more wives than one, they couldn’t possibly be real humans, i.e. beings characterised by love and compassion, now could they? And where the civilisation colonised was highly developed according to the…

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The treatment of love, or rather the understanding of the term as a way to become a better person, is paramount to the understanding of courtly love and Medieval infidelity; whether religious or secular, love outside the realms of marriage was not primarily seen as an erotic escape away from an…