Ad Putter
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198182535
- eISBN:
- 9780191673825
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198182535.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This chapter examines the similarity between the temptation scenes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and in Chretien de Troyes' Perlesvaus. It suggests that the temptations in both works took the ...
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This chapter examines the similarity between the temptation scenes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and in Chretien de Troyes' Perlesvaus. It suggests that the temptations in both works took the similar form of an invitation to become the ‘Sir Gawain’ about whom their seductresses have obviously heard so much. It attempts to explain where the ladies who tempted to seduce Gawain learned about the knight's reputation as a womanizer.Less
This chapter examines the similarity between the temptation scenes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and in Chretien de Troyes' Perlesvaus. It suggests that the temptations in both works took the similar form of an invitation to become the ‘Sir Gawain’ about whom their seductresses have obviously heard so much. It attempts to explain where the ladies who tempted to seduce Gawain learned about the knight's reputation as a womanizer.
Darren Arnold
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781911325758
- eISBN:
- 9781800342415
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781911325758.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter details the synopsis of Ken Russell's The Devils (1973). Set in seventeenth-century France, the film tells the story of influential secular priest Urbain Grandier, who holds interim ...
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This chapter details the synopsis of Ken Russell's The Devils (1973). Set in seventeenth-century France, the film tells the story of influential secular priest Urbain Grandier, who holds interim powers in the city of Loudun following the death of Governor Sainte-Marthe. A chronic womaniser, the vainglorious Grandier begins a relationship with the daughter of a plague victim. The film also tells the story of Sister Jeanne, the abbess of the local Ursuline convent, who entertains wild sexual fantasies about Grandier and invites him to be the order's new confessor. After being disappointed when Father Mignon became the new confessor instead of Grandier, Sister Jeanne tells Mignon that Grandier is a servant of Satan who has placed her, and the rest of the convent, under a spell of lewd desire. A kangaroo court finds Grandier guilty of sorcery, and he's sentenced to death by burning.Less
This chapter details the synopsis of Ken Russell's The Devils (1973). Set in seventeenth-century France, the film tells the story of influential secular priest Urbain Grandier, who holds interim powers in the city of Loudun following the death of Governor Sainte-Marthe. A chronic womaniser, the vainglorious Grandier begins a relationship with the daughter of a plague victim. The film also tells the story of Sister Jeanne, the abbess of the local Ursuline convent, who entertains wild sexual fantasies about Grandier and invites him to be the order's new confessor. After being disappointed when Father Mignon became the new confessor instead of Grandier, Sister Jeanne tells Mignon that Grandier is a servant of Satan who has placed her, and the rest of the convent, under a spell of lewd desire. A kangaroo court finds Grandier guilty of sorcery, and he's sentenced to death by burning.
