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Explain what a “boon” is: Who asks for it , why, what are the conditions and are there any drawbacks? A boon is a particular promise that th...

Beauty, youth, and nobility are important for a woman to possess in the Middle Ages in order for them to obtain a respectable man as their h...

Religion and war were directly intertwined in the Middle Ages. Crusaders fought over holy land with each side believing they were fighting ...

Meg Bogin states in her book, The Women Troubadours, that “throughout the Middle Ages women were the pawns of men.” She supports this claim...

The poem The Song of Roland would have been popular with the Crusaders on their way to Jerusalem because the war story told in the poem has...