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 their own densities. In both stories, the women live in a male dominated ... lives. The Romance of Tristan of Iseult is exactly what the title indicates, a through and through romance, with a dash a heroism. The notion of an ideal and pure lov...

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