as Gottfried outlines insofar as Tristan and Isolde’s “life, their death, their joy, their sorrow” (p. 44) have a transformative power, as any good love story does. As much as this account deeply challenged the traditional morality and social order of feudal and aristocratic society, it...
Tristan and Isolde suffered deeply, as Gottfried alerts us, outlining already here in the prologue the essential features of the subsequent narrative, but this very suffering prompts the audience to comprehend and appreciate the meaning of the critical values of all human life: loyalty, honor, ...