arthurian legends Archives - The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org/tag/arthurian-legends/ Literary Arts Journal Thu, 27 Apr 2023 22:17:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/hyacinthreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-Hyacinth-H-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 arthurian legends Archives - The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org/tag/arthurian-legends/ 32 32 199531397 The Problem of Truth in Medieval English Verse: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Troilus and Criseyde https://hyacinthreview.org/lisa-hana-delaney-the-problem-of-truth-in-medieval-english-verse-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-and-troilus-and-criseyde/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lisa-hana-delaney-the-problem-of-truth-in-medieval-english-verse-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-and-troilus-and-criseyde Thu, 04 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=4489 ‘In the hierarchy of values by which most historians live, truth stands higher than fiction, and prose higher than verse’: where, then, does this leave the works considered so seminal to our understanding of the medieval era, when such works are often in verse? Historian Gabrielle Spiegel considers prose to be ‘a language of fact’,…

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