Premium Content Worth the Third Part of an Angevin: Lancelot as Paragon of Courtly Virtue in "The Knight of the Cart"
By Jordan Reid Berkow - November 11, 2002
One of the key indicators of the effectiveness of a romantic tale is whether those who hear it fall entirely under the spell of the hero as he takes on an idealized, larger-than-life status, becoming everything which the listener could ever want in a lover. Lancelot, paramour of Queen Guinevere and one of the great romantic figures of medieval…
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