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The Reign of Queen Elizabeth I

England prospered in the second half of Elizabeth's reign, and many of the great works of English literature were produced during these...

The Wife of Bath is one of Chaucer’s most enduring characters, and apparently, one of the most famous of any of the Canterbury stories....

Reading this work by Geoffrey Chaucer was much different than reading a piece by Marie de France. There are no supernatural elements in...

This short lay relates an incident from the very well known legend of Tristan and Isolde. Though scholars cannot place the exact date of...

There are many clear medieval romance characteristics that can be pointed out in Marie de France's work Chaitivel. Chivalry is definitly...

Marie de France’s Laustic can be interpreted in different ways. The story is about two knights that live next door to each other. The one...

The story of Yonec was a little different than Marie’s other lais I have read thus far. At first, I thought the story was going to be...

Marie de France writes yet again another story based on courtly love in the medieval era. Lanval, a greatly honored knight possessed of...

When I read the characteristics of medieval romance stories in the nineteenth century, I saw that medieval romance derives mystery and...

The BBC documentary about medieval marriages allowed me to get a further understanding of how the nineteenth century dealt with issues of...