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...

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Main Author: Agnès Blandeau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2014-04-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/223