The upper texts often became a confusing mixture of sacred and secular—and even anticlerical—poems, indicating its intended performance in courtly as well as ecclesiastical settings.
She was expected to study subjects considered proper for a Byzantine princess, like courtly etiquette and the Bible, but preferred classical myth and philosophy.
Doctors who made great fortunes out of dainty remedies for imaginary disorders that never existed, smiled upon their courtly patients in the ante-chambers of Monseigneur.
Later, he gets her parents' permission to see Priscilla again, disarming their objections with his courtly Southern manners and his claim that his intentions are honorable.
Although they didn't refer to it as 'courtly love poetry' — to them it was simply poetry, albeit very different than the usual literature for that time.