LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS
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women are always villains, while men are always heroes
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women are always involved in supernatural plots while men’s storylines tend to be more realistic
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men are allowed to boast about their affairs, while women must keep them secret
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men are represented as immoral while women are always presented as chaste
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1936 C. S. Lewis wrote The Allegory of Love further solidifying courtly love as a “love of a highly specialized sort, whose characteristics may be enumerated as Humility, Courtesy, Adultery, and the Religion of Love". Later, historians such as D. W. Robertson Jr., in the 1960s and John C.
Detailed explanation-2: -courtly love. noun. a tradition represented in Western European literature between the 12th and the 14th centuries, idealizing love between a knight and a revered (usually married) lady.
Detailed explanation-3: -Courtly love may perhaps have been the greatest change in Western culture between the fall of Rome and the rise of the Renaissance. It put women on pedestals and glorified amorous passion in a way that was anathema both to Classical civilization and Christian salvation.