Medieval Romance: The Knight with the Lion

'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages - Episode 35
In this episode my guest host Professor Larissa 'Kat" Tracy and I discuss my favorite medieval romance, Chrétien de Troyes' late twelfth-century poem, "Yvain, the Knight with the Lion." We place the poem within its historical context - the first European industrial and commercial revolution, and the emergence of a courtly society and culture--and analyze what it reveals about aristocratic values and conceptions of love, gender relations, and chivalry in the late twelfth century.
The translation I used for the quotations is by Carleton W. Carroll (Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances. Penguin Classics. Penguin Books, 1991).
This episode includes a musical snippet from Andrei Krylov's "Noble medieval knight song" • Noble Medieval Knight ...
The host of 'tis but a scratch is Richard Abels, a professor emeritus of history at the United States Naval Academy, Richard is a specialist in the military and political institutions of Anglo-Saxon England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.
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Intro and exit music are by Alexander Nakarada

[@stephena1196]

That was indeed wonderful, very interesting and a lot of fun.

[@eddierudolph8702]

I have never read this poem, but I could easily see it was a neo western or rodeo movie.

[@stephena1196]

When I read the title, my first was thought shouldn't there be "Tattoo" written at the end.

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😀😀😀