Sea Voyages in Medieval Romances: Symbolic Trails through Existential Experiences and Female Suffering on the Water.

Author / Editor
Classen, Albrecht.

Title
Sea Voyages in Medieval Romances: Symbolic Trails through Existential Experiences and Female Suffering on the Water.

Published
Critical Literary Studies 2.2 (2020): 27-46.

Description
Suggests that in medieval literature generally the "motif of crossing a body of water was regularly perceived as an epistemological operation of a physical and a spiritual kind," and explores the notion in several narratives, including MLT, examining how sea travel tests and affirms protagonists' firmness of character and devotion.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale