gentilesse การใช้

• Not coarse sexuality, but a refined gentilesse is the ideal of these romances; the love of the courtier for his lady, usually another man's wife, has been interpreted as a secularization of the medieval cult of the Virgin Mary, a " feminization " of the patriarchal Roman Catholic Church.
• As to the connection of " gentilesse " with the official grant or recognition of coat-armour, that is a profitable fiction invented and upheld by the heralds; for coat-armour was the badge assumed by gentlemen to distinguish them in battle, and many gentlemen of long descent never had occasion to assume it and never did.