The following articles explore the similarity of courtly & romantic love with the structural practices of BDSM. 

• Courtly Romance as Sadomasochistic Erotica
• Sadomasochism and Courtly Love
• Male Masochism in Victorian Women’s Literature
• Male Masochism and Culture in 1936
• Guinevere and Lancelot- by William de Leftwich Dodge (1910)