Open AccessReflections on a Foxy Trick
Author(s) -
Margaret Burrell
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
florilegium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2369-7180
pISSN - 0709-5201
DOI - 10.3138/flor.21.007
Subject(s) - knight , narrative , quarter (canadian coin) , literature , history , participant observation , art , aesthetics , sociology , archaeology , social science , physics , astronomy
Why does the unnamed lady in Jean Renart’s Lai de I ’ombre finally submit to the blandishments of the knight and grant him her love? She has, after all, already sent him firmly on his way until she sees that he has slipped his ring on her finger and is obliged to summon him back. Does his ruse of then throwing the offending ring into the well justify her capitulation?
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