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The Pen and the Pennon: Political and Social Comment Inscribed within Chivalric Romance
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
interrogated. Chapter three suggests that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight repurposes the character of Gawain to observe the importance of oath taking and the bonds formed by knights from the practice of such. Chapter four focuses on the message of Athelston...
Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
(2015)
hand and family obligations and personal ambition on the other. Relevant themes—such a child
oblation, the holy veil and enclosure, legal and illegal marriage—frame Marie and create a microhistory of
the world that she inhabited. Other historical...