Gay Knights and Gay Rights: Same-Sex Desire in Late Medieval Europe and its Presence in Arthurian Literature

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Literary Studies (MA)

Zwart, Dorien Elvira Anna (2019)

Gay Knights and Gay Rights: Same-Sex Desire in Late Medieval Europe and its Presence in Arthurian Literature

Master thesis | Literary Studies (MA)

This MA thesis contains analyses of the status of same-sex desire in late medieval Europe and researches how same-sex desire is depicted in three Arthurian stories written during this period: the Lai de Lanval, the Prose Lancelot and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The thesis examines whether these depictions engage with or react to the socio-historical circumstances around same-sex desire in the late medieval period.

late medieval literature

Lanval

Prose Lancelot

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

medieval sexuality

medieval Europe