A History of Courtship: 800 Years of Seduction Techniques

Explore 800 years of lust, love, and loss. The author takes the reader on a journey from medieval courtly love, through to the sexual license of the Restoration, and Victorian propriety. Pick up historical 'dating tips', from how to court (or be courted); write romantic love letters, give and receive gifts, propose and pose as a sighing swain. A historical approach to the problem of finding a mate, with case studies of classic romantic mistakes and plenty of unusual tales. In the fourteenth-century young men tried to impress the ladies with their footwear, donning shoes with pointed toes so long that they had to be secured with whalebone presumably because size mattered!

© 2017 Pen & Sword History (E-bog): 9781473875098

Release date

E-bog: 27. januar 2017