Women, Courtly Love and the Creation Myth in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a great epic written in fourteenth century Europe by the Pearl poet, emphasizes the opposition of Christian love to Courtly love in the 13th century through the dilemma of Sir Gawain, one of the great knights of the Arthurian round table. By examining the women in the poem, Gawain’s dilemma becomes a metaphor for …showed first 75 words of 1605 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1605 total…man’s downfall, which is highlighted by the contrast of Courtly love to Christian love. Works Cited Abrams, M.H. “The Norton Anthology of English Literature.” New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. De Roo, Harvey. "Undressing Lady Bertilak: Guilt and Denial in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." The Chaucer Review 27 (1993): 305-24. Warner, Marina. “Alone of all Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary”. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1976.