ENGL 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sir Orfeo, Courtly Love
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Poem composed in a place far away from england. Romance: about heroic adventures, the court, more conventional. Arthur is believed to have lived int he 6th century. Chivalry: a code of living includes courtly love. Romances center on these things (don"t nd it as much in sir orfeo ) Courtly life: what people are wearing, re nement, the modes of social decor. The hunting scenes: (the deer, boar and fox) not only the hunt but what they do once they catch it, it goes on in detail. At the time the people who were hunting and knew this knowledge or skill was the lords and aristocrats. The poem reproduces the norms of aristocratic life. Parallel between the animals being chased and what is happening to gawain in the bedroom. Chivalry comes from eh 10th or 11th century. Term that identi es the various aspects of knightly virtues: about their skills, character.
