TRADITIONAL ENGLISH COURTSHIPS IN THE 17th CENTURY TIFFANY NORWOOD “We live in a conjugal age, when the couple has become the standard for all intimate relationships, the unmarried and the married, the homosexual as well as the heterosexual.” Men and women are always searching for that “certain someone.” Courtship is defined as wooing, but in the 17th century England it was much more. It was a session that had stages, rituals, and procedures. The parents …showed first 75 words of 796 total…

…showed last 75 words of 796 total…the purest gold.” In conclusion love is explainable in it’s own terms and is truly felt where it is at. But in the 1600s love was thought of a physiological as well as psychological. Traditional English courtship of the 17th century had many problems with rituals and all the consents but prevailed in the end. Till this day we live by some of these guidelines of the past, cause the title is “traditional courtship.”