Chrètien de Troyes lived at the Maria di Champagne's court between 1160 and 1180 and wrote a series of knights romances, those romances were full of magic events and the most important part was dedicate to the importance of love.
In those romances dedicated to the Knights of the Round Table there were numberless personaes, the first is King Artur, a legendary gallant warrior that was able to unite the British and Christians Tribes against the Anglo-Saxon invasions, pagan people who worshipped a Germanic religon.
All around King Artur mouved many other personaes as his tutor wizard Merlin who grew Artù to attain the unification of the british tribes under his wise government.
Wizard Merlin was a fantastic personage who come from the celtic culture, in fact he rapresented the Druid figure.
In antithesis to Merlin was the witch Morgana, so she was a magic figure, but she had negatives characteriestic, she worked for the breton defeat and for the paganism supremacy.
Another very important figure of the romance was Queen Ginevra very loved and idealized by Artù, but she was unfaithful to him following in love with Sir Lancillotto one of the most brave kinghts and friends of Artù.
The greatness of those romances doesn't lie in the more or less veracity of the told stories but in the represented values; with those romances had come to us the medioeval vision of life, ideals like onor, loyalty, faithfulness and love for the King and for the Church were unrenounciabily values for the medieval man; those feelling are so far from ours that they train an unresistible actraction.
Lia Fabbri
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