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Knights, dragons and beasts: the strange world of medieval romances

From gallant knights to dragon-slaying damsels, Lydia Zeldenrust reveals why medieval readers couldn’t get enough of romance tales

• Lydia Zeldenrust

Published: June 9, 2021 at 12:15 PM

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With their tales of supernatural beasts, death-defying quests and dashing knights that always got the girl, romances were the must-reads of the Middle Ages. Lydia Zeldenrust reveals how – despite concerns that they were corrupting readers – medieval romances became a pan-European literary sensation.

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Lydia Zeldenrust

Lydia Zeldenrust is a historian specialising in literature of the late medieval period

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