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In Search of a Lost Sensibility, redefines the birth of romantic love in literature in twelfth-century europe.He argues persuasively that in the twelfth century the idealistic, spiritual, chastely passionate, morally instructive, and reverential "ennobling love" in the Western tradition that had begun with the Greeks was transformed into medieval courtly love, a new concept rooted in the new "inclusion of women in a social code that until then had been almost exclusively the preserve of men." 1 courtly love then created an "unsolvable problem" of taking physical "sexuality into the idealism of ennobling love," forcing "a union of eros and agape. . . .The great challenge . . .was to maintain love's ability to ennoble even while declaring the sexual act and its fulfillment a quasi-legitimate element."But how, Jaeger asks, could passionate love confer on the medieval aristocracy aura, prestige, and rank, as ennobling love had? "How can it claim virtue, while admitting virtue's old enemy, the sexual act, as the natural end of love and full partner in the exalting process?" 2 The concept would be hard to overcome, let alone transform.as Dyan elliott remarks, "Most of the church fathers were apprehensive of human sexuality, as sexual relations were generally considered to be a reminder of humanity's fallen state." 3 Yet Jaeger suggests that there was a variety of solutions, including such "founding moments" as the passionate tragic love of Héloïse and abelard, the "frank sexuality . . . of the student milieu in paris," and christina of Markyate's incorporation of passion and sexual desire between male and female into an ascetic, chaste, and monastic 1 c.
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