Chivalry
Chivalry, which comes from the French word for "horse," is essentially a code that emerged in the Medieval world that governed the behavior of knights toward not only other knights, but women, rule...
Duality and Doubling
An important part of the narrative structure of The Faerie Queene is the prominence of characters that find themselves doubled, mirrored, or copied. Weird, we know, but also kind of interesting. Of...
Bower of Bliss
Home of the bewitching and alluring witch Acrasia, the Bower of Bliss is one of the most memorable and strange places in the whole of The Faerie Queene. Coming at the end of Book 2, The Book o...
House of Busirane
The House of Busirane, like Busirane himself, is super duper creepy. You don't want this guy to be your interior decorator, that's for sure. Lining his walls with tapestries of famous raped women,...
The Temple of Isis
Isis is a pagan god originally from ancient Egyptian mythology, so the presence of her temple in the middle of a Christian, English poem might seem odd. What might seem even more odd is that the Te...