ENG 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Courtly Love, Wield, The Sequence
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These notes cover the information found in the introduction to and the text of sir. All of this is found in volume 1a of the. The history of the poem, english courts, and what a courtier is: It is remarkable that we have the manuscript at all, so the fact that we do not know the author"s name seems relatively small. Historians and scholars have surmised (from the clues in the manuscript) that the poet was a highly sophisticated provincial court poet (201), probably from the. Northwest midlands (that would be in the area in between the city of coventry and sherwood forest on the map in the inside cover of the textbook). While the poem was probably written during the middle ages, it uses characters from arthur"s time, which is said to have been during the late 7th and early 8th centuries (650-750, ad). The courts of the middle ages probably differed from the courts of the.
