Abstract: Through the lens of medieval French material culture, this article analyzes nudity in Chrétien’s Yvain and the Prose Lancelot as the protagonist knights wander alone, lovesick, and insane, after losing their ladies’ affections and considers how the shedding of their social skin rends the fabric of society within the narrative.
Monica L. Wright (Sun,) studied this question.
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