Commentators have suggested Hearst was determined to turn the affair into a damsel-in-distress story like that of the then popular medieval romances.
32.
In the medieval romances, the lance with which Saint George slew the dragon was called Ascalon after the Levantine city of Ashkelon, today in Israel.
33.
In his long career, Trevor wrote more than 100 books : war novels, medieval romances, maritime and horror stories, as well as espionage thrillers.
34.
Intended for a largely rural and semi-literate audience these books included almanacs, retellings of medieval romances and condensed versions of popular novels, among other things.
35.
The first record of a medieval Romance language in the Balkans dates to the early Avars in the eastern Balkans may have one of the earliest references to Vlachs.
36.
Louise Sylvester, in a study of heterosexuality in medieval romance, argues that the love affair between Melydor and Degrevant develops according to stereotypical masculinist heterosexual Western patterns.
37.
In medieval romances, starting with the " Roman de Troie ", Briseis becomes "'Briseida "'and is the daughter of Calchas.
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The damsel in distress was an archetypal character of medieval romances, where typically she was rescued from imprisonment in a tower of a castle by a knight-errant.
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The marriage plot was the liberal age's reformulation of the medieval romance, which excluded all but aristocratic ladies and their chivalrous knights from its epics of love.
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"Octavian " has similarities with the Middle English Breton lays and is imbued, like much of medieval romance, with the characteristics of folktale and myth.
