well it is fact that many authors use the term neo paganism when talking about courtly love both on google and elsewhere from what i have read since the term and concept of courtly love was first popularized by gaston paris in the 's and was not used before then it may not be surprising if paris used the romantics notion of neopaganism in describing courtly love and has now become an ingrained part of the historiography indeed the very idea of courtly love some historians believe never existed and was a romantic th c idea layered on the past i really need to re write this article from a historians perspective one day