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• Love at first sight — is an emotional condition whereby a person feels romantic attraction for a stranger on the first encounter with the stranger. The term may be used to refer to a mere sexual attraction or crush, but it usually refers to actually falling in love… …   Wikipedia

• Provence — For other uses, see Provence (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Province. Location of the former French province of Provence …   Wikipedia

• Courtly love — God Speed! by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1900: a late Victorian view of a lady giving a favor to a knight about to do battle Courtly love was a medieval European conception of nobly and chivalrously expressing love and admiration.[1] Generally,… …   Wikipedia

• Aix-en-Provence possessions — In 1611 at Aix en Provence (South of France), Father Louis Gaufridi was accused of causing demonic possession in the Ursuline nuns at Aix. He was found guilty and burned at the stake atop a pile of bushes, because they burned slower and hotter… …   Wikipedia

• courtly love —    The term courtly love, generally used to describe a group of literary conventions common in western Europe in the later medieval period, was in fact never used in the Middle Ages. It was coined by the scholar Gaston Paris in 1883 to denote an… …   Encyclopedia of medieval literature

• Aix-en-Provence Possessions — (1609–1611)    Sensational case of possessed Ursuline nuns, alleged immoral sex, and a PACT with the DEVIL, which led to the torture and execution of a priest. The Aix en Provence case is one of the first in France to produce a conviction based… …   Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology