…don't annoy us by telling us that things should be the way you think they should be. There's a wonderful Medieval poet, Gottfried of Strasbourg and he says: they tell me there are people who wish to live in bliss alone. God give them their bliss. Those…

…moth experienced, the experience of the anguish as well as the bliss of love. And this is the emotion that Gottfried of Strasbourg celebrated in his Tristan. This poet, Gottfried, regarded love itself the goddess in little German, Minna the Minna Singers…

…the brink here of a religion of love. This religion of love was actually rendered, I would say, in the Tristan of Gottfried of Strasbourg, Gottfried's Poems. A poem is not complete, he died we don't know why. 1210. Here the potion that is drunk by…

…in these eastern images is that both terms are present in the same image as it is as they are in life. Gottfried of Strasbourg, in his wonderful Tristan, says: they tell me there are those who seek only happiness and peace. Let god give them peace.…

…sword they toss the sword up and they catch it the other way down and it was a kind of a virtuoso demonstration. Gottfried of Strasbourg, on the other hand was a cleric he was a clergyman and he's very, very cynical with respect to nightly combats and…

…of the most important is by Norman of Britain Robert of Britain Pardon me Robert of Britain and the greatest is of Gottfried of Strasbourg, and it's from that that Wagner took his Tristan. Um perhaps I should uh tell the Tristan story right now and then…

…Tristan is the key romance of the twelfth century chrétien of Troyes. Tristan, which is lost was written about 1160. The Gottfried of Strasbourg Version which I've just recited, more or less dates from 1212 so there's a period in there. To me it's…

…tristans, and Thomas of Britain is a major figure, his Tristan and then the great one, the one that Wagner used is Gottfried of Strasbourg and his date's about 1210, that's to say half a century after Gratian. Well the ladies of the court were not…

…there. There was only about six or eight tristans of the middle ages. The one that is most important is that of Gottfried of Strasbourg who died before he finished his Tristan, and you have to continue with the story on which he was modeling his own.…

…the altar would have been is a bed of crystal. And the sacrament of the altar is the sacrament of sex. I mean Gottfried Strasbourg meant this and the Medieval people meant this the sacrament of love is sexual intercourse and it is a sacrament and it is…

…tristans, and Thomas of Britain is a major figure, his Tristan and then the great one the one that barney used, is Gottfried of Strasbourg and his date's about 1210, that's to say half a century after cretan. Well the ladies of the court were not…

…love. There was only about 6 or 8 tristans of the middle ages. The one that is most important is that of Gottfried of Strasbourg, who died before he finished his Tristan. You have to continue with the story on which he was modeling his own. The…