Abstract
As interest in the history of the emotions and personal life contines unabated, the literary and social history of love is being rethought and rewritten. Denis de Rougemont's Love in the Western World popularized the assumption that medieval courtly love poetry initiated a long tradition of a romantic love which by its very nature was incompatible with marriage. This belief has been challenged by recent scholars such as Alan Macfarlane, who finds literary evidence for love in marriage going back to the thirteenth century.1 On the other hand, Lawrence Stone's The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 15001800 (1977) has promoted the idea that an affective individualism leading to the eventual flowering of romantic married love dates only
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