Medievalists.net » Joan of Kent http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medieval Misogyny and Gawain’s Outburst against Women in “‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/medieval-misogyny-gawains-outburst-women-sir-gawain-green-knight/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/medieval-misogyny-gawains-outburst-women-sir-gawain-green-knight/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:08:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51806 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/medieval-misogyny-gawains-outburst-women-sir-gawain-green-knight/feed/ 0 BOOK REVIEW: A Triple Knot by Emma Campion http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/29/book-review-triple-knot-emma-campion/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/29/book-review-triple-knot-emma-campion/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:06:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51448 BOOK REVIEW: A Triple Knot by Emma Campion I had the pleasure of reading another Emma Campion (Candace Robb) novel recently. Campion, who has written extensively about Alice Perrers, the royal mistress of King Edward III, in her hit, The King’s Mistress, is back on the shelves with a new book released this month entitled: A Triple Knot. This […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/29/book-review-triple-knot-emma-campion/feed/ 0 Love in the Time of Plague http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/12/love-in-the-time-of-plague/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/12/love-in-the-time-of-plague/#comments Thu, 13 Feb 2014 04:00:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47535 When I first started writing this blog, I wanted to tell a medieval love story. It is the story of the dashing Black Prince of Wales, and his Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent.

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