A History of Courtship

Explore eight hundred 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 14th 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!

---

Some books that may interest you

Nottingham: The Buried Past of a Historic City Revealed By: Scott C Lomax	In the Words of Wellington's Fighting Cocks By: Robert Burnham, Moisés Gaudêncio	French Foreign Legion 1831-71 By: Martin Windrow Illustrated by: Gerry Embleton
An Archaeological History of Britain By: Jonathan Mark Eaton	The Best of Fragments from France By: Captain Bruce Bairnsfather Edited by: Major and Mrs Holt	Hitler's Rockets By: Norman Longmate
The Victoria Crosses of the Crimean War By: James W Bancroft	The Jena Campaign, 1806 By: F.N Maude	Yorkshire VCs By: Alan Whitworth