Agency in the Representations of Medieval Aristocratic Women in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes
Journal: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium)
Year: 2022

This project extended the scope of my English Honors thesis, analyzing two poems by the twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes. I initially analyzed how The Knight with the Lion (Yvain) depicted female agency in the twelfth-century courts with the potential for a contemporary reality to appear. This project asks whether my literary thesis could find validity in the illustrations within the Yvain manuscripts. That is: What do manuscript illustrations tell us about how the artists of two Y