Fin' amors means "fine love" or "refined love" and has had a profound influence on attitudes towards, and between, lovers and beloveds for centuries. Essentially it is the knightly, or noble, worship of an ideal woman, in which the act of loving is in itself ennobling and refining. The ideals of fin' amors arose in twelfth century France and spread throughout western and northern Europe and is very much associated with the Middle Ages, when …showed first 75 words of 1789 total…

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