While the way in which the female characters in The Song of Roland and The Romance of Tristan and Iseult differs, the status of the women seems to change little in the century and a half or so that separate the two works. This conclusion is come to after examining the lives of the women in the two stories and the power that they were able to exert over ... the battle in which the men are engulfed, affect the lives of the women. Their place wasn't on the battlefield, far from it, but rather confined in the safety of the heavily fortified castles, far from the ravages of war. Brominade, the In...

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