Medieval love

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Sometimes we love to love romances that end poorly. From Romeo and Juliet to Tristan and Isolde to Ennis and Jack, get your fix of tragedy here.

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A selection of more unusual Knights of the Round Table names that move beyond Arthur, Lancelot, Percival and Elaine.

Tristan and Isolde, Tristan also called Tristram or Tristrem, Isolde also called Iseult, Isolt, or Yseult, principal characters of a famous medieval love-romance, based on a Celtic legend (itself based on an actual Pictish king). Though the archetypal poem from which all extant forms of the legend are derived has not been preserved, a comparison of the early versions yields an idea of its content. The central plot of the archetype must have been roughly as follows: The young Tristan ventures…

There’s a saying, “In the Middle Ages, women were trying to keep the balance between the pedestal and the sewage ditch.” On the one hand, women, even the most noble ones, were not always considered to be full-fledged people, but on the other hand, they were respected and loved. Many people are sure that the women that lived in the Middle Ages had lives similar to those that house plants have, but this is not entirely true. Women hunted, fought, and wrote poems and medical texts.

Love is the universal feeling. From the dawn of time, from the earliest epochs of man, and all throughout the rise and fall of world’s many civilizations, the concept of love drove the wheel of time forward.

If you love romantic historical dramas, here's why you should be watching this period costume TV series. Set beginning in 1916, now streaming on Netflix.