Editing Translatio studii (section)

==Anglo-Norman ''cortoisie'' and ''romanz''==

''Cortoisie'' is a synthesis of the superiority of French knighthood and learning. As a new distinction of the French knight, ''cortoisie'' implies not only a new style of communication and mastery of language, but a new style of communicative attitude, especially when regarding women. From ''cortoisie'' comes courtly love, a highly disciplined, self-denying, and respectful social form. Ideally, in this form, the knight honors his lady as something sacred. This new ideal of love called for a new ideal of language, according to Chrétien, and so, translations from old, dead Latin into French, or ''romanz'', began. It is this language that replaces Latin as a new and lasting period of high culture, and, in so doing, becomes the real language or medium of ''translatio studii''.<ref>Budick, Sanford, and Wolfgang Isen, eds. The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996. Google Books.</ref>