1- Complete a comparison the rules of "The Art of Courtly Love" to the rules of romance in your own culture. In your answer, discuss the "rules" you saw as similar. Do these seem to you to be ideas that help to promote strong relationships, or are they ideas that could be damaging?
2- Reflect on why romances like Lanva; retain a hold on the modern imagination. In your answer, consider the idea of nostalgia. Are romances like this just nostalgic, idealizing earlier times, or can they help us to understand something important about our own culture?
3- Compare the women in The Tale of Genji with women in Lanval. In your answer, discuss which, if any, of these ideals of female desirability exist in our own time. How much has the idea of a "desirable woman" changed?