Editing Courtly love (section)

===Courtly love as a response to religion===
Theologians of the time emphasized love as more of a spiritual rather than sexual connection.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brundage|first=James A.|title=Sex and Canon Law|year=1996|publisher=Bullough & Brundage|pages=33–50}}</ref> There is a possibility that writings about courtly love were made as a response to the [[theology|theological]] ideas about love. Many scholars believe that Andreas Capellanus' work ''[[De amore (Andreas Capellanus)|De amore]]'' was a satire poking fun at doctors and theologians. In that work, Capellanus is supposedly writing to a young man named Walter, and he spends the first two books telling him how to achieve love and setting forth the rules of love. However, in the third book he tells Walter that the only way to live his life correctly is to shun love in favor of God. This sudden change is what has sparked the interest of many scholars,{{sfn|Moore|1979}} leading some to regard the first two books as satirizing courtly love and only the third book as expressing Capellanus' actual beliefs.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Finoli |lang=de |title=Andreas Capellanus. I. Theorien über Verfasser und Werk |trans-title=Andreas Capellanus. I. Theories about author and work |journal=Lexikon des Mittelalters |date=1999 |volume=10 |pages=604–605 |location=Stuttgart}}</ref>