…variety of romances including the Ipomedon (1174–90) of Hue de Rotelande and the anonymous mid-13th-century Anglo-Norman Gui de Warewic. Finally, there are many examples of the “persecuted heroine” theme; in one variety a person having knowledge of some “corporal sign”—a birthmark or mole—on a lady wagers with her husband that…
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