century. Mostly stories of single knights who undertook an adventure in order to gain a lady's favour. They stress their chivalric ideas of courage, honour, mercy and elaborate manners. Courtly Love a code that regulates the relations of a knight and his lady. The erotic aspect of love is spiritualised. It is regarded as the noblest passion on Earth. The knight is called the courtly lover, he has to idealise his lady - she has to be perfect and he must fulfill her every wish. · France: Stories that center on Charlemagne · Rome: Trojan war Alexander the Great's conquests The Orient · Britain: King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Guinevere, Mordred, Morgana, Merlin, Excalibur, Galehault, Island of Avalon, the Holy Grail. Early Roman romances were in French. Later on they were written in Middle English.
former KGB circles, can be viewed as a fruit of extreme subjectivism and fantasy. The Russian memoir literature does not feature any consensus on the extinction of the empire. 154 All the advocates of the preservation of the Soviet Union, including Gorbachev, blame the collapse on the local elites, separatists, nationalists, and party nomenklatura, citing the desire to get a bite of the public property rather than the nation’s desire for freedom as the leading motive. Those who idealise the empire mostly discard any actual analysis of the national issue, instead eulogising the unprecedented burgeoning of nations under the Soviet regime and socialism as such. These memoirs demonstrate that the liberation movements of the Baltic peoples played a very important, in some aspect even pioneering role in the annihilation of the Soviet Union, whereas the principal underlying reason was Russia’s own pursuit of sovereignty
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