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Movie Review: Tristan and Isolde

Medievalists.net — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:35:38 +0000

As far as medieval movies go, Tristan and Isolde definitely isn’t the worst I’ve seen. I was looking for a movie to watch after work, and I thought, hey, James Franco, Sophia Moyles, Henry Cavill, and Rufus Sewell, all directed by Ridley Scott?! - this can’t be that bad. Well, it was pretty bad, but it wasn’t the worst 2 hours of my life. So what went wrong?

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Magna Carta Conference Offers New Insights Into The 800-year-old Document

Medievalists.net — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:32:45 +0000

Magna Carta just celebrated its 800th birthday this past Monday. In honour of this incredible milestone, King’s College London, and the Magna Carta Project, hosted a 3 day conference dedicated to this historic document.

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Genre Medievalisms: Geek Goes Chic!

Medievalists.net — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 13:57:10 +0000

Is Cersei a collection of bad medieval stereotypes? Have nerds gone mainstream? Were American cowboys a modern retelling of the medieval knight? Put down that comic, put away your bag of dice, and indulge your inner nerd.

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Late Medieval Knight Reflecting on his Public Life: Hugo de Urriés (c. 1405-c. 1493), Diplomacy and Translating the Classics

Medievalists.net — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:05:37 +0000

This article focuses on Aragonese courtier Hugo de Urriés's public profile by means of analyzing the critical points derived from examining his personal, political, cultural and historical stands making use of an invaluable primary source, his letter to Fernando the Catholic in the early 1490s.

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Knighthood in Le Morte D’Arthur: Recapitulation of Development of Medieval Chivalric Literature

Medievalists.net — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:30:12 +0000

Undoubtedly chivalry belongs among the most influential phenomena in medieval Europe. Since its emergence in the eleventh century chivalry with its concept of knighthood is adopted by various European countries in the era as one of the principal codes applied not only in military campaigns but also in the sphere of morality as well as the social stratification of the monarchies.

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Nicolette : action transvestite, or, who and what is the heroine of Aucassin et Nicolette?

Medievalists.net — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 11:13:20 +0000

In this paper, I will show how Nicolette is constantly, deliberately, changing, in appearance and identity, from the beginning of the story, and how she is thus Izzard's action transvestite.

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Medieval Misogyny and Gawain’s Outburst against Women in “‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’

Medievalists.net — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:08:06 +0000

The view has been gaining ground of late that the Gawain of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a knight renowned as 'Pat fyne fader of nurture' (1. 919) and as 'so cortays and coynt' of his 'hetes' (1. I525), degenerates at the moment of leave-taking from the Green Knight, his erstwhile host, to the level of a churl capable of abusing the ladies of that knight's household (11.2411 -28).

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Caught in Love’s Grip: Passion and Moral Agency in French Courtly Romance

Medievalists.net — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:06:35 +0000

French royal courts in the late twelfth century were absolutely smitten with love. Troubadaours traveled from place to place reciting stories of knights and the ladies they wooed.

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A Kiss Is Just a Kiss: Heterosexuality and Its Consolations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Medievalists.net — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 15:39:44 +0000

The famous line from that modern romance- "A kiss is just a kiss"- is the message the Gawain-poet gave his listeners six centuries ago.

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Parzival, the perfect Medieval hero?

Medievalists.net — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 10:51:26 +0000

When we now think of knights, we automatically think of knights in shining armours, saving damsels in distress while killing dragons and other mythical creatures. But is this image we have of these heroes correct? Was the Medieval hero really just a tough guy who saved beautiful ladies and killed the ´bad guys´. In this paper I will try to give a standard description of what a Medieval hero really was. After which I will try to determine if Parzival really was a medieval hero, compared to the standards that I have tried to set.

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