Boccaccio tells that story of Griselda, a story that we learn from Petrarch’s letter to him, is one that is well known in Italy at the time. I think this story is just wrong. Any man who would let a woman think that he had killed her children and then was going to put [...]
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Okay, I get that Tristram is a great guy. Courageous, merciful (see previous post), cunning, etc. And maybe I’m just having a hard time following all of this (I really have no previous knowledge of medieval literature), but weren’t we just talking about the chaste knight emerging in medieval literature? For example, the Knights of [...]
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Posted in Cultural Connections, honor, storytelling on Jul 6th, 2007
Looking at the Lancelot reading again I want to parallel the evil dwarf with the evil Jinn of the Arabian Nights. That’s pretty obvious– they’re both wretched, tricky creatures, even if the Jinn is not that bright, not to mention their hideous physical features. Is this a ridiculous statement, though? Should this be regarded as [...]
First of all, since I missed class yesterday, if any or all of this was talked about, I’ll shut up and color (although i always had a hard time staying inside those damn lines). From what I’ve read on the blog, it seems like some of y’all are noticing the high level of violence [...]
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