These officers are said to have paid dearly for their uncourtly language.
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Honours were not much accessible in those days, especially in uncourtly quarters.
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Then, too, though an uncourtly, he had been a passionate and a romantic lover.
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The courtiers all tittered, and some indeed extended it to a most uncourtly loud laugh.
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In no way do I want to neglect being diligent, no matter who may take me for uncourtly.
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This perhaps may sound harsh and uncourtly, but it is too true, and the more is the pity.
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It is scarce to be wondered that these uncourtly epistles excited no little astonishment in the English camp.
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Awkward and uncourtly, at heart shy, he was but a poor figurehead for the stately court of France.
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One of these new and uncourtly men excited laughter by affecting a princely state and splendour of demeanour and equipage.
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The good female soul was carried away by a sympathy so uncourtly, and she gave herself up completely to her inborn fire.
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No one thought any more of the uncourtly guest, who had come in like a shadow and vanished again into the starless night.
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When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.
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He was at first gently reprimanded for his indolence, but the truth at last came out, and a most uncourtly altercation ensued between him and the king.
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"Courtly Love," in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Vol. 3, pp. 667–668. Richard Trachsler says that "the concept of courtly literature is linked to the idea of the existence of courtly texts, texts produced and read by men and women sharing some kind of elaborate culture they all have in common". He argues that many of the texts that scholars claim to be courtly also include "uncourtly" texts, and argues that there is no clear way to determine "where courtliness ends and uncourtliness starts" because readers would enjoy texts which were supposed to be entirely courtly without realizing they were also enjoying texts which were uncourtly.
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Miraval was captured by Simon de Montfort during the Albigensian Crusade. After the Battle of Muret in 1213 Raimon probably fled to Spain, after swearing never to sing again until he had regained his castle. At some point he separated from his wife, Gaudairença (or Caudairenga), herself the author of the (now lost) song Coblas e dansas, for uncourtly behaviour.Topsfield, "Raimon de Miraval and the Art of Courtly Love", 40.
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In the first instance, the lady's love costs five cents florin and her letters are full of lies.The poem is Diats, mi-doncs: ¿cuydau- vos que•us servescha. In the second instance, the lady has another lover, so Guillem publicly airs all her secrets she has told him. This is very uncourtly, but it is justified, to Guillem, because she is devoid of all courtliness to begin with.
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A whole series of songs is ascribed to Dietmar, but his authorship can be clearly decided in only a few cases. With those verses which can be attributed to him without any doubt, he belongs in the earliest period of the Minnesang. Dietmar von Aist and his work represent the link between the uncourtly and the courtly forms. He was one of the first poets to use the refrain and the Tagelied form Wechsel.
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He dons the man's armour and goes to Glastonbury, where King Arthur is holding court. There he asks Arthur to dub him a knight although his upbringing is uncourtly. Arthur is so pleased by young Gyngelayne's sight that he gives him a name – Libeaus Desconus, ‘The Fair Unknown’ – and knights him that same day. Libeaus at once asks King Arthur if he might be offered the first challenge for which the king is required to provide a champion.
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Burton died in the parish of Holy Trinity Church, Micklegate, York, on 19 January 1771, and Mary Burton died on 28 October following. At his death he was living in or near Micklegate in York; he was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Micklegate, York, on 21 January. Burton is commonly supposed to have resembled Laurence Sterne's satirical description of him the novel Tristram Shandy as the character Dr Slop: "a little, squat, uncourtly figure...of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly". However, a sworn testimony of 1746 describes him as "a tall Well sett Gentleman".
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Dafydd may have derived the theme of sexual comedy from the fabliaux, rollicking tales in verse of a type which originated in France and spread across Europe, though he differs from them in making the poet himself the butt of the story. In that case there would be little or no reason to suppose the poem autobiographical. Alternatively, he could have been influenced in this respect by the works of Ovid, of Chaucer, or of the goliards. It has also been argued that the poem was based on the form of medieval morality tale known as exemplum, or that it was intended as a parody of the chivalric romance in which the narrator's humiliation is a judgement on his uncourtly attitude to love.
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