Tradition_English_Courtship_In_The_17th_Century

Tradition English Courtship In The 17th Century TRADITIONAL ENGLISH COURTSHIPS IN THE 17th CENTURY TIFFANY NORWOOD “We live in a conjugal age, when the couple has become the standard for all intimate relationships, the unmarried and the married, the homosexual as well as the heterosexual.” Men and women are always searching for that “certain someone.” Courtship is defined as wooing, but in the 17th century England it was much more. It was a session that had stages, rituals, and procedures. The parents played a huge role in the courtship and even the marriage. Traditional courtship in the 1600s was much more complex and drowns out then today’s engagement. Many were arranged or based on social status. There was also a large age difference between the men and women. Marriage and courting was often thought of as a brutal and painful ordeal. There were many problems with courting in the 17th century. Courtship was approached with caution and little romantic spontaneity that we expect from our young lovers today. Straight forwardness and personal expressions of love was not accepted. The action of courting was very impersonal. “There has never been a time in recorded history when the relations between the courtship, love, marriage, traditional, century, 17th, young, time, parents, women, very, rituals, live, large, day, courting, couple, consent, always, 1600s, wooing, two, today, thought, shepherd, seize, relationships, procedures, problems, practiced, posting, poetry, much, men, marvell