The core of romanticism

(the idea of) romanticism was born when two knights agreed to meet in combat and one of them was left, broken and dying, on the plain

something like that
i read a few days ago
and couldn't refind it
it's mythopoetic, but it does some useful things

like highlighting how at odds the values of romanticism are to christianism

it's relationship to the cult of beauty

it's emergence as the first real challenger to christian ideals after christian hegemony that wasn't directly linked to the realities of power

romanticism is problematic
one of the most problematic things
it is very powerful, and liberatory
and also very dangerous