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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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/221 |