At this time of the year our thoughts turn to love and how to please our significant other on Valentines day.Many years ago there was a beautiful place totally dedicated to pleasure and love. The famous legend of Camelot was written here.
At the end of the twelfth century one of the most famous castle courts was in Poitiers, France and was devoted to courtly love. This lively court was presided over by Eleanor of Aquitaine, the wife of Henry II of England and the ex-wife of Louis VII of France. The “beautiful people” throughout Europe gathered in Poitiers to learn the proper art of love. Poets, playwrights, musicians, jesters, princes, princesses, lords and ladies frolicked in the bedroms and banquet halls of this famous court where the male was taught to subject his body and soul to the desires of the female of his dreams. He fought with sword and lance to prove his love and to eliminate the competition for the affections of his beloved. He wore her colors on his armor, and she cheered him in the joust. He was her knight in shining armor.
On February 14, the ultimate lover’s day, why give her only flowers and chocolate? Give her a symbol of your undying love, a knight in shining armor. Ladies, why not give your love a sword, a symbol of strength and courage?
