Where the Middle Ages Begin
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?
By the high middle ages, Tristan and Isolde’s love story had become extremely popular.
Twenty-eight miles off the coast of Cornwall, the Scilly Isles rise above the waves of the Atlantic.
Tristan and Isolde is an Arthurian legend, the origins of which predate Arthur’s Roundtable. Scholars generally agree that the story of Tristan and Isolde is Celtic in origin.
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This thesis discusses the evidence provided by late twelfth-century and early thirteenth-century romances on medieval marriage.
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