Chivalry and women's role in keeping it alive were important reasons men kept their honor and did their duty towards their beloved. ... Oftentimes from the union between lover and beloved it was best if the woman did not conceive, as the couple did not want to be found out by the woman's husband when a child was born who did not resemble him. ... Anderson and Zinsser state that, "Love, not the woman herself, caused the hero to act, to test and prove himself,"" (334). ... This woman allows her lover "to perish, without helping him."" ... It was Eve, a woman, who brought suffering upon...

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Not a different setting as compared to other fiction of similar nature Stockton planned to lull his reader into believing that it is another medieval plot with the same story line. ... Well, no lover be it a man or a woman, can ever stand his/ her love to be with another woman/ man. ... In this particular case, the king's role is pure and simple- sadistic. ...

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Their story is even reinforced by their existence in a ruined palazzo surrounded by books and a nearby medieval village. ... what became of the maps created by the Expedition Team and whose contents have a significant role to play in the desert war? ... Katherine Clifton, wife of Jeffery Clifton, a cartographer, was the woman that he loved most in his life. ... "Throughout the war, with all of her worst patients, she survived by keeping a coldness hidden in her role as a nurse (p.48). ... As for the patient - in telling his story, in finally confronting what has happened to him and to the woma...

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And thirdly, Boccaccio's personal beliefs must have played an important role in the construction of sex within the tales. ... In The Decameron, Boccaccio places us in a time when the plague was running rampant within the medieval realm. ... In the tenth story of the fifth day it is said, " a woman is always ready for a man, but not vice-versa. What's more one woman could exhaust many men, whereas many men can't exhaust one woman (432-435)." ...

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