Medieval Adultery (with Kat Tracy), part 1: Lancelot and Guinevere

'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages - A podcast by Richard Abels

Send us a textThis is the first of a three part series about adultery in the Middle Ages. My co-host for both is Dr. Larissa 'Kat' Tracy. Last month Kat and I talked about my favorite medieval romance, Chretien de Troyes' late twelfth-century French poem "Yvain: The Knight with the Lion." Unlike the more famous medieval romances of Lancelot and Guinevere and Tristan and Isolde, "Yvain" celebrated marital love. That led me to ask Kat about attitudes toward adultery in medieva...