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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

Parzival

Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival tells in Middle High German verse the coming-of-age story (Bildungsroman} of Parzival, the new King of the Holy Grail. Wolfram wrote Parzival probably in the first decade of the thirteenth century. He drew extensively on Chrétien de Troyes’s late twelfth-century Old French verse romance Perceval or the Story of the Grail {Perceval ou le Conte du Graal}. Parzival became a widely known and influential Arthurian romance. At least eighty manuscripts of it have survived. Parzival is a seminal work for understanding castration culture and men’s subordination to women under the ideology of courtly love.

faithful, enduring love of Condwiramurs and Parzival

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

eminent medieval knight Gahmuret forced to marry Queen Herzeloyde

The Grail King Parzival’s father, the eminent knight Gahmuret, married Queen Belacane, yet Queen Herzeloyde and Queen Ampflise also wanted to marry him. … Read the post eminent medieval knight Gahmuret forced to marry Queen Herzeloyde

Antikonie fiercely defended Gawan, falsely accused of raping her

Hurling chess pieces at attackers, Queen Antikonie virtuously defended the knight Gawan after he was falsely accused of raping her and mobbed in Parzival. … Read the post Antikonie fiercely defended Gawan, falsely accused of raping her

Bene versus Orgeluse: Gawan preferred abuse and pain in love

In Wolfram’s medieval Parzival, the good Bene was more loving than the ogre-like Orgeluse, but Gawan preferred to love the viciously abusive Orgeluse. … Read the post Bene versus Orgeluse: Gawan preferred abuse and pain in love

Obilot in love with Gawan triumphed over her sister Obie

In Wolfram’s Parzival, Obilot solicited Gawan’s love, saved her mother’s castle, and reconciled her sister Obie & her beloved Meljanz. … Read the post Obilot in love with Gawan triumphed over her sister Obie

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