, and Literary Engagement with the Paradox Chrétien de Troyes's Chevalier de la charrette ( The Knight of the Cart , ca. 1180) brought the immortal pair Lancelot and Guinevere together as lovers for the first time. The characters existed in the German
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The Gallic Singularity
The Medieval and Early Modern Origins
Tracy Adams
Representations of Women in the French Imaginary
Historicizing the Gallic Singularity
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen
related cultural pattern that she calls “the equal-not equal paradox,” the distinctive combination of “intertwined assumptions that women were as competent as men of their same rank but legally inferior to them.” Her analysis of Chrétien de Troyes