Today there seems to be an underlying assumption that chivalry is all about men in armor riding around questing, jousting and conquering, while the women sit helplessly in their towers and castles with nothing to do but sigh and swoon. Apart from the favorable depiction of Arthur, Lancelot, Gawain and other knights, the retellings of the Arthurian legend pay much attention to Queen Guinevere who, in addition to being untrue to her husband and King, treats her devoted lover, Sir Lancelot, unjustly. On the other hand, she remains faithful to her lover for most of her life, what is more, when Arthur dies and the fellowship of the Round Table is destroyed, she becomes a nun and spends the rest of her days "in fasting, prayers, and alms-deeds, that all manner of people marveled how…