The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Revision as of 08:39, 28 September 2009; view current revision
←Older revision | Newer revision→
Jump to: navigation, search

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop

Featured:

The "The Wife of Bath's Tale" is an example of the "loathly lady" motif, the oldest examples of which are the medieval Irish sovereignty myths such as Niall of the Nine Hostages. In the medieval poem The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, Arthur's nephew Gawain goes on a nearly identical quest to discover what women truly want. Some have theorized that the Wife's tale may have been written to ease Chaucer's guilty conscience. It is recorded that in 1380 associates of Chaucer stood surety for an amount equal to half his yearly salary for a charge brought by Cecily Champaign for "de rapto" rape or abduction; the same view has been taken of his Legend of Good Women, which Chaucer himself describes as a penance.


Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Retrieved from "http://artandpopularculture.com/The_Wedding_of_Sir_Gawain_and_Dame_Ragnelle"
Personal tools
Metas