Guy of Warwick is an adventure romance in which Guy of Warwick repents of seeking to be a chivalric hero to please his beloved Felice. Originally written in Anglo-Norman shortly before 1204, it was translated into English no later than the early fourteenth century.
Guy of Warwick became a hero in England second only to King Arthur. His adventure romance survives in sixteen manuscripts and remained widely known in England through to the nineteenth century. Guy of Warwick is now rightly known as a seminal work of men’s sexed protest.
The medieval heroine Felice rejected suicide because she feared that her self-exiled husband Guy of Warwick would be wrongly charged with murder. … Read the post considering suicide, Felice feared for her husband Guy of Warwick
After killing many men, the medieval knight Guy of Warwick repented his gyno-idolatry and directed his chivalry toward serving God rather than Felice. … Read the post medieval romance hero Guy of Warwick repented men-killing chivalry
In a medieval romance, the wicked seneschal Morgadur falsely threatened Guy of Warwick with a false accusation of raping the Roman Emperor’s daughter. … Read the post Guy of Warwick falsely threatened with false accusation of rape
When Guy of Warwick ardently professed his love for her, Countess Felice contemptuously threatened to have him executed for not remaining silent. … Read the post Guy of Warwick feared punishment for loving Felice in medieval romance