One of our presenters, Piers, has suggested that the reason feudalism (i.e. the system of service-for-protection) grew out of areas conquered by Germanic peoples, but did not evolve (or really "take") in Celtic areas, was because, in Germanic culture, a warrior could sell his loyalty but Celtic culture not so: it was much more rigidly kin-based.
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But Chretien and others pounced on tales of ladies being rescued as the ideal subject matter to be bludgeoned into tales of courtly love. And bludgeon them they did.
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