THE ART OF EQUALITY
Romantic nostalgia
Le Morte d’Arthur Thomas Malory (1485)
“One thing that really fascinated me was that Malory was writing nostalgically about the way men and women were together in a sort of magical, hundreds-of-years-ago place quite different from the world he was living in at the time. Today, people hark back to 1950s values, for example, and a kind of idealised world – we have a nostalgic view. And that’s exactly what people were doing way back in Malory’s day as well.”
Marital discord
Paradise Lost John Milton (1667)
