HUMA 1125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Trial By Combat, Courtly Love, Kshatriya
28 Nov 2016
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Cf beowulf: women do matter a lot around the edges of the story, as peace weavers, commentators. In roland: women, however, are barely there, except as comment on the hero: aude: drop dead, queen of saragossa: get converted. Abelard and heloise letters: women very real, and complex, and have a hold but, though love songs are there in the story, as abelard writes week 6 tristan. 2 them, no great model for stories of love as surfaces in the letters. Heloise is searingly passionate, and marvelous, but the love-play between the man and woman is hard to see. Heloise mourns the loss but barely describes the thing itself. The absence of love and infatuation changes fast: mid-century, after 1150 or 1160. Just after abelard dies, and while heloise is still alive (she dies in. Romance arrives, and lives and prospers into 17c, until, almost, the arrival of the novel.
