Towards the end of the Medieval period, and alongside the writings on friendship with a spiritual focus, emerged a more secular philosophy on friendship. This chapter considers the topic in two sections. The first explores writers of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, beginning with Andreas Cappellanus, who engages with courtly love, and is thought to have been influenced by Ovid. The section concludes with Christine de Pizan, who envisages a city of women where they would be ‘free to flourish according to virtue and protected from the slanders of men’ (Berges, Teaching Christine de Pizan in Turkey. Gender and Education, 25(5), 595–604, 2013, p. 596). The second section reviews Medieval heroic and romantic epics related to sworn brotherhoods and chivalric friendships, starting with the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, thought to have been written some time between the tenth and eleventh centuries. The review concludes with Malory’s Morte D’Arthur completed at the end of the fifteenth century. Based primarily in Europe, these secular writers presented narratives in English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian and Spanish languages. While men were the main writers and protagonists, women had roles as female beloveds, figures of fun, victims needing rescue, the causes of violence and figures of tragedy. Rarely are there records of women writers such as Christine de Pizan to point out the misogyny and offer an alternative role for women.