compares the roles of women in medieval literature. Support your claims with quotations and/or textual evidence from three texts. The men throughout the Old English era played a very prevailing role in society. Men were the persons in society that were portrayed as the central leaders; being in charge of their homes and representing wisdom and strength. Because the men’s role in the Old English era was so dominant, there is a vast amount of literature about them, thus allowing women to be outshined
being courteous to women, but also in a sense where in olden ages anybody under the king should do anything for him. Chivalry is usually a very broad term. But who is to say that chivalry ever actual was practiced? Chivalry was only thought to be used because certain writers portrayed it being used to women and their kingdom. Three texts that tend to demonstrate this are Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Perceval The Story of the Grail, and Morte D’Arthur. In the text Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
Women in the Old English and Medieval Periods were typically only given small roles in society. But it is not the roles themselves, but rather what the individual women did with those roles which made them more important than the others. Women during these time periods did not hold significant roles in society compared to those held by men. However, many of them were very important to each of their communities because of what they did with the roles that they were given. Women in the Medieval period