Emphasis began to be placed on beauty and love, an emotion virtually void in the warrior society. Troubadour poetry and minnesang rose, creating a social elite of women. They became figures of lust and desire, and men of lower social status admired those of high ranking. This was important for women because they had previously been regarded as inferior to men. "There is little talk of 'love' in this warrior society. And one has the impression that a man in love would have appeared ridiculous among these warriors. Women were generally regarded by these men as inferior beings. There were enough of them available. They serve to gratify drives in their simplest form." (Page 327.) When society changed from the warrior class to a court system, this love poetry and admittance of love to society made women seem difficult to attain and thus placed importance and status on them. "This is the situation, this the emotional setting of minnesang, in which henceforth down the centuries lovers recognize something of their own feelings." (Page 328.) Society became more refined and this centered on the figure of femininity as women are traditionally seen as the softer, gentler s

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