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The Wife of Bath's Tale - Chaucer

This tale starts off with a knight raping a young woman. He is brought before King Arthur and the court, who are disgusted by his action...

The Franklin's Tale, although a lot harder to follow and understand like the Clerks Tale, was an interesting and humerous story to read....

The Clerk's Tale was a very engaging and well written writing about a very interesting story. Walter was the lord who was looking for a...

This lai reminded me of a Romeo and Juliet story. It also brought to my attention that the love during this time was so strong between...

"Chaitivel" is also known as "Four Mournings." This lai was very different from the other lais we have read by Marie de France. In this...

Laustic, which means nightingale, was a short lai unlike the other lais we have been reading by Marie de France. There lived two knights...

How would you like to be locked up in tower for SEVEN years of your life, slowly becoming more and more miserable and suicidal? I don't...

Lanval was a very complex love story that seemed to be very out of the ordinary, especially thinking about it from our perspective,...

Bisclavret was a thriling story about a knight who was so ashamed of his lifestyle that he didn't even share it with his wife until she...

This video on Medieval Marriages was eye-opening to the huge difference in marriages from then compared to marriages now-a-days. To think...