<P> The conception of romantic love was popularized in Western culture by the concept of courtly love . Chevaliers , or knights in the Middle Ages , engaged in what were usually non-physical and non-marital relationships with women of nobility whom they served . These relations were highly elaborate and ritualized in a complexity that was steeped in a framework of tradition , which stemmed from theories of etiquette derived out of chivalry as a moral code of conduct . </P>
<P> The conception of romantic love was popularized in Western culture by the concept of courtly love . Chevaliers , or knights in the Middle Ages , engaged in what were usually non-physical and non-marital relationships with women of nobility whom they served . These relations were highly elaborate and ritualized in a complexity that was steeped in a framework of tradition , which stemmed from theories of etiquette derived out of chivalry as a moral code of conduct . </P>
when did the concept of romantic love begin
when did the concept of romantic love begin
the Middle Ages
the Middle Ages