Lady as Temptress and Reformer in Medieval Romance.

Author / Editor
Sweeney, Michelle.

Title
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