Abstract: Amadas et Ydoine is a minor, anonymous romance in Old French that includes the typical romance element of a knight who must earn his lady's love and atypical ones such as a graveyard battle between Amadas and a demon knight. It depicts the long process of falling in love, then the couple's response to Ydoine's forced marriage amid the courtly politics surrounding inheritance and the influence of the barons. The romance has been criticized for its exaggerations and extremes and at times simply neglected. Early discussion examined sources and contexts. The major strands of recent criticism include analyses that account for the plot extremes, intertextual readings of Tristan romances and Cligés , elements of the marvellous and the role of the three witches/fairies/Fates, the complex marriage politics that Ydoine deftly handles, and the narrator's misogynist tirades. They proffer reading strategies ranging from Jungian to didacticism to travesty.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-06-29
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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