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Essay explores knights' overcoming isolation and loneliness through women's spiritual intervention in their narratives.
This essay explores instances where knights in Chrétien de Troyes’s romances experience isolation, captivity, and loneliness, emphasizing how separation from courtly Christian society is presented as an obstacle that knights must overcome. Yvain, Lancelot, and Erec are received back into society after the symbolic spiritual intervention of women in their narratives.
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