Abstract

This article argues that Chretien de Troyes’ Yvain serves as an exemplum of Christian virtue through which the author explores caritas —love directed toward a higher purpose than oneself—as the theological virtue under which all others are ordered and which the hero Yvain must work to perfect.

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