Lady as Temptress and Reformer in Medieval Romance.
- Author / Editor
- Sweeney, Michelle.
Lady as Temptress and Reformer in Medieval Romance.
- Published
- Essays in Medieval Studies 30 (2015): 165-78.
- Description
- Examines how "knights are reformed" and some are "even saved by the women who tempt them" in several medieval romances, including Chretien's "Knight of the Cart"; Marie de France's "Lanval"; "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; and FranT, where Dorigen is "the temptress and the protector, all rolled into one complicated package."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale