Ywain : The Knight of the Lion

Rating:
Summary: BORING
Review: Please teachers, don't assign this book as required reading. It put me to sleep everytime I tried to read it.

Rating:
Summary: chivalry at its best
Review: Yvain is a beautiful tale of love and courtly society by the greatest storyteller of medieval France, presented here in a very clear (and relatively cheap) translation. Particularly fine is the way this fantasy presents 12th-century aristocratic values, especially as the title character is torn between love of a woman and love of honor in his very masculine society. I have used this translation several times in undergraduate history classes on the Middle Ages--it works extremely well.