First of all, since I missed class yesterday, if any or all of this was talked about, I’ll shut up and color (although i always had a hard time staying inside those damn lines). From what I’ve read on the blog, it seems like some of y’all are noticing the high level of violence in the Lancelot reading, and thinking that the violence itself is the significant part of the reading. The problem with this is that we’re reading it from a 20th century point of view, from a world in which we are removed from death, and where real violence is something most of us have/will never see. This is not the case for the original audience of Lancelot.
The middle ages were a time of constant warfare (hell, the English and French fought over the same chunks of land for over 100 years), high infant mortality, […]
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