Medievalists.net » Parzival http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Parzival, the perfect Medieval hero? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/parzival-the-perfect-medieval-hero/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/parzival-the-perfect-medieval-hero/#comments Sat, 11 Jan 2014 10:51:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46545 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/parzival-the-perfect-medieval-hero/feed/ 0 “Thus he rode sorowyng”: Travel Narratives and the Ethics of Sexual Behavior in Le Morte d’Arthur http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/23/thus-he-rode-sorowyng-travel-narratives-and-the-ethics-of-sexual-behavior-in-le-morte-darthur/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/23/thus-he-rode-sorowyng-travel-narratives-and-the-ethics-of-sexual-behavior-in-le-morte-darthur/#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:25:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33107 The Arthurian oeuvre traditionally maintains a plot structure that requires knights to depart from the Round Table, either as a response to a challenge or in quest of chivalric “aventure,” followed by a return to Camelot. Within this narrative framework, there exists an intricately designed logic to descriptions of movement and travel. In particular, sex and travel appear inseparable.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/23/thus-he-rode-sorowyng-travel-narratives-and-the-ethics-of-sexual-behavior-in-le-morte-darthur/feed/ 0 Bounds of Imagination:Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/26/bounds-of-imaginationgrail-questing-and-chivalric-colonizing-in-wolfram-von-eschenbach%e2%80%99s-parzival/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/26/bounds-of-imaginationgrail-questing-and-chivalric-colonizing-in-wolfram-von-eschenbach%e2%80%99s-parzival/#comments Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:35:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=22132 Bounds of Imagination:Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival Hasty, Will The Grail, the Quest and the World of Arthur,  ed. Norris J. Lacy (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008) Abstract The Arthurian and Grail narratives of the High Middle Ages, particularly by means of their adventures and quests, occupied a new territory in the imagination of […]

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