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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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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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Wild woman and her sisters in medieval English literature

Medievalists.net — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:47:31 +0000

The subject of this work is the concept and figure of the Wild Woman. The primary focus will be on various forms this figure assumes in medieval English literature: Grendel's mother—the second monster Beowulf faces—and Chaucer's Wife of Bath, along with other figures.

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Chaucer’s Arthuriana

Medievalists.net — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:58:22 +0000

The majority of medieval scholars, including Roger Sherman Loomis, argue that the popularity of the Arthurian legend in England was therefore on the wane in the latter half of the fourteenth century; as a result, the major writers of the period, such as John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer, refrained from penning anything beyond the occasional reference to King Arthur and his court.

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