Love and Marriage in the Breton Lays

Love is usually said to be the central concern of the Middle English Breton lays, as of the French ones. But in fact the English poems pay relatively little attention to romantic love, and are more concerned with identity, family separation and reunion, loyalty and justice. In the French lays, as in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elizabeth Archibald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2014-04-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/221