what do women want? Medieval Edition

medieval.net has a list of five romances that were beloved in medieval times.

several of these romances were discussed in the Faerie and fantasy course by the Tolkien professor HERE.

and if you wonder what women really wanted, any woman will tell you:

Gawaine promise (to marry the hag Ragnell if she tells him the secret), and Ragnell reveals that what women want most is “To have the rewlle of the manlyest men” (“To rule over the manliest men”.