Courtly love is described as knights setting out on adventures or performing various services for their ladies, either to win them over or win them as property. It was originally written into literature that was read by nobility or the high classes, but time went on and changed to meet a larger portion of society. Meaning that courtly love changed to make an appeal to more then nobility but also to lower classes. Aspects of courtly love exist today, but it has changed along with history that has
The Knight and The Miller: The Same Yet Different Stories have been circling by word of mouth for as long as there have been people to tell them. Over the years these stories have changed and grown, becoming more and more specific to their tellers. The details, such as names, settings, and a few happenings, change all of the time, however the plot and the message always stays true to what it was originally intended to be. In the novel The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer uses this idea to tell
influence. Dante, whose “realism and tangibility of the world” and Chaucer’s satirical edge in telling of corruption stimulate the reader’s senses and imagery (Puchner 1051). Needless to say both of their works, specifically the Inferno and Canterbury Tales, have effected and will still continue to motivate
paradigms and create one dimensional characters out of them in order to study their function in the plot. While a complex inner world does not prevail in these lays, there are various elements one should take into account in order to draw the line between wrong and right. Often influenced by Celtic legends as well as Christian beliefs and ideas, the Breton lay is in part defined by the interaction of fantasy and realism. It flirts with magic as well as religion and probes the fascination and anxiety