Amando sem limites nem escrúpulos: as representações do amor no Lancelote de Chrétien de Troyes

Abstract

Since the XI century Europe was underworing for great changes, through this changes amid one new type of literature, the novels of cavalry. These are stories told by poets of the courts, which tell the adventures of brave knights to please his beloved, the lady in most cases is the wife of his master. These narratives highlight Lancelot, the knight of the cart, where the love of Lancelot for queen Guinevere is narrated by the poet Chrétien de Troyes. For this love the knight faces, in the narrative follows, the most various adventures, the Lancelot’s love can be understood as causing a kind of madness, in his role as the rider leaves aside, even for a few moments his honor and the precepts of chivalry. Is this “crazy” love we analyzed in this work.