Loyalty and Treason in Some Middle English Breton Lays
Middle English Breton lays often depict a feudal world that rests on mutual trust and fealty between a lord and his vassals, and in which love relations are conceived in terms of a covenant that binds the knight to his beloved, whether mortal or fairy. Be it at court, in a family or simply a married...
Main Author: | Agnès Blandeau |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2014-04-01
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Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/223 |
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