In Wolfram von Eschenbach’s early 13th-century Arthurian romance, Parzival and Condwiramurs became with faithful love King and Queen of the Holy Grail. … Read the post faithful, enduring love of Condwiramurs and Parzival
Straparola with Malgherita Spolatina & Teodoro in Le Piacevoli Notti gender-reversed the myth of Hero & Leander and provided a shining example. … Read the post true hero Malgherita Spolatina swam sea to Teodoro, her Leander
The Roman de Thèbes ends more auspiciously for ending epic violence against men than does Statius’s Thebaid. Women’s laments for dead men aren’t sufficient. … Read the post Roman de Thèbes reoriented ending of Statius’s Thebaid
Neoptolemus, Achilles’s son, loved his Trojan concubine Andromache, Hector’s wife. Neoptolemus’s wife Hermione hated Andromache for being so lovable. … Read the post Hermione hated Andromache because Neoptolemus loved her
Helen and Paris’s love affair brought about the disastrous Trojan War, yet medieval poets imagined it romantically. Men’s deaths should matter more. … Read the post Helen and Paris’s love affair in medieval imagining