Lancelot: Or, the Knight of the Cart Chretien de Troyes

One of the key indicators of the effectiveness of a romantic tale is whether those who hear it fall entirely under the spell of the hero as he takes on an idealized, larger-than-life status, becoming everything which the listener could ever want...

Jordan Reid Berkow

Final Paper

Medieval Court

December 14, 2002

Behind the Courtly Facade:

The Function of Irony in ChrÃtien de Troyes' Le Chevalier de la Charrette

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see

The pretty follies that themselves commit.

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Throughout the middle ages, “romance” was the genre that dominated the market. However, as time progressed, the genre of romance began to alter, essentially changing into something different altogether. This alteration in genre shifted to what the...