Denomy and the Essential Ennobling Trait of Early Courtly Love.

“Courtly Love is a type of sensual love and what distinguishes it from other forms of sexual love, from mere passion, from so-called Platonic love, from married love is its purpose or motive, its formal object, namely, the lover’s progress and growth in natural goodness, merit and worth.”

-Denomy, Courtly Love, pg. 44