Valentine's day

History of Valentine's day

By:Josee Petit-clair

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• wikipedia.org
• history.com

Legends

• in The Dictionary of Christianity, writes that Saint Valentine was "a priest of Rome who was imprisoned for succouring persecuted Christians.
• Contemporary records of Saint Valentine were most probably destroyed during this Diocletianic Persecution in the early 4th century.
• In the 5th or 6th century, a work called Passio Marii et Marthae published a story of martyrdom for Saint Valentine of Rome, perhaps by borrowing tortures that happened to other saints, as was usual in the literature of that period.

Today

Chaucer's love birds

How valentine's days started

• we still celebrate valentine's day and still remember the story of valentine.We all celebrated valentine's day with joy ,flower,and candy.
• Every February 14, across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine.

lupercalia

• The Roman's celebrated a festival called Lupercalia on February 15. ]
• This festival was held to ward off the danger of wolves to their flocks and honored their God Lupercalia.

• The celebration of Saint Valentine did not have any romantic connotations until Chaucer's poetry about "Valentines" in the 14th century.
• Popular modern sources claim links to unspecified Greco-Roman February holidays alleged to be devoted to fertility and love to St. Valentine's Day, but prior to Chaucer in the 14th century, there were no links between the Saints named Valentinus and romantic love
• In Ancient Rome, Lupercalia, observed February 13–15, was an archaic rite connected to fertility. Lupercalia was a festival local to the city of Rome

• Jack B. Oruch writes that the first recorded association of Valentine's Day with romantic love is in Parlement of Foules (1382) by Geoffrey Chaucer.[21] Chaucer wrote:For this was on seynt Volantynys day.Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make.
• ["For this was on St. Valentine's Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate."]
• This poem was written to honor the first anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia.[41] A treaty providing for a marriage was signed on May 2, 1381

court of love

valentine poetry

• The earliest description of February 14 as an annual celebration of love appears in the Charter of the Court of Love.
• The charter, allegedly issued by Charles VI of France at Mantes-la-Jolie in 1400, describes lavish festivities to be attended by several members of the royal court, including a feast, amorous song and poetry competitions, jousting and dancing
• No other record of the court exists, and none of those named in the charter were present at Mantes except Charles's queen, Isabeau of Bavaria, who may well have imagined it all while waiting out a plague.

• The earliest surviving valentine is a 15th-century rondeau written by Charles, Duke of Orléans to his wife, which commences."Je suis desja d'amour tannéMa tres doulce Valentinée"...—Charles d'Orléans, Rondeau VI, lines 1–2
• Valentine's Day is mentioned ruefully by Ophelia in Hamlet (1600–1601):"to-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,All in the morning betime,And I a maid at your window,To be your Valentine.Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,And dupp'd the chamber-door;Let in the maid, that out a maidNever departed more."—William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene