By Nick Dlugos (Fall 2022) The idea of a perfect hero, especially in medieval literature, often manifests itself in the ideas of knights like Sir Lancelot or many of the other knights of the roundtable. However, one knight of the roundtable, Sir Gawain, isn’t the same as his peers. When […]
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By Fengying Guo (Fall 2022) “The Lay of the Werewolf” is one of the twelve Breton lais written by Marie de France. Historians know very little about her and they believe that she is either a nun or an aristocratic woman because those are “the only literate women in medieval […]
By Camilo Quinteros-Parrilla (Fall 2022) Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, written by Mary Wroth is a collection of sonnets in which the author explores the themes of love and gender through the fictional relationship between Pamphilia and Amphilanthus. The text is from Pamphilia’s perspective and shows how her love changes her and […]
By Vivian Deng (Fall 2022) Although the idea of romantic courtship comes up in many medieval and renaissance texts, none show the gender roles and power imbalances quite like Sir Phillip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella. The collection of 108 sonnets tells of the main character, Astrophil’s, deep desire for an […]