Your field of study sounds very interesting (and I got to learn what onomastics means!), and now I want to know more about what you studied.
Mine is an undergraduate, and my thesis focused on the idea of the chivalric romances as reflecting different ideals of behavior for the mounted class, using Ywain, Perceval, Beaumains, the Dung-Cart Lancelot (not the strongest chapter there) and Gawain and the Green Knight as examples of the shifts in attitude over time.
There was very little research I could find at the time about what the rituals, oaths, and obligations of behavior a member of the mounted class took on when I was doing the research, or I would have probably stuck more closely to a thesis on "what behaviors did a knight swear to when they became one, and what behaviors did they actually engage in?", although I might have still found some very useful material in making comparisons between actual manuals of knighthood, chivalric romances, and harsh reality.
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Your field of study sounds very interesting (and I got to learn what onomastics means!), and now I want to know more about what you studied.
Mine is an undergraduate, and my thesis focused on the idea of the chivalric romances as reflecting different ideals of behavior for the mounted class, using Ywain, Perceval, Beaumains, the Dung-Cart Lancelot (not the strongest chapter there) and Gawain and the Green Knight as examples of the shifts in attitude over time.
There was very little research I could find at the time about what the rituals, oaths, and obligations of behavior a member of the mounted class took on when I was doing the research, or I would have probably stuck more closely to a thesis on "what behaviors did a knight swear to when they became one, and what behaviors did they actually engage in?", although I might have still found some very useful material in making comparisons between actual manuals of knighthood, chivalric romances, and harsh reality.