Compare Love And Love In The Medieval Time

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Back in the Medieval time period, there were so many rules to love; there were rules for how you dressed, the way you talked to one another, and you even had to say things a certain way. Upon researching different topics to discuss, the way love and sex plays apart in the Medieval time and modern day caught my attention. I will be discussing what love was and the influences on how it was performed in the medieval time and how sex plays a part part in it and then compare and contrast it to love and sex in this century. Love can be interpreted in many ways by many different people. Today 's love is much more easy and straightforward than how it was in medieval time; in that time, there were certain rules to love, but today love is basically a …show more content…

One is a vision of total repression. A church controlled by celibate men defines all sexual acts and thoughts as impure. Any sexual behavior or thought is a sin calling for severe acts of penance. Even marital sex for the purpose of reproduction is barely tolerable; it becomes a sin if the participants enjoy it. Sexuality threatens human salvation: it is a nearly irresistible force, but a force of evil. The devil is always at the ready to use sexual temptation to drag humankind to destruction and …show more content…

Because of the christian religion, people could not be themselves and if they tried to they were punished for it. If you had sex when you weren 't supposed to and got caught, you were punished. A couple could not even enjoy sex with their spouses, if they enjoyed it, the act was considered a sin. If a person was not married and they had sexual thoughts, it was also considered a sin and you would go to hell as they put it. Discussing love, it was complicated; different people loved for different reasons, but the most common reason for love and marriage was because of personal gain. The couples that got married to each other because they were told to did not actually love one another; some of the time they were in love with other people. Marriage was arranged for land, money, and mostly

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