“Lanval” was written by a female poet and therefore enlists a somewhat feminist perspective on the idea of ​​patriarchy. In this poem, a beautiful woman asks a knight to keep their love a secret: “I command you and I beg you, let no man know. I'll tell you why: you would lose me forever” (144-46), and “He replied that he would do exactly as she commanded him” (151-52). Here, gender roles are reversed and the female figure holds the social power of command instead of the male one, clearly subverting the patriarchy. In a patriarchal theme, the knight commanded the woman and she obeyed his command without hesitation. The same idea can be seen when the queen asks the king to punish Lanval after she claims that she was insulted. She said she would never “arise unless the king gave her satisfaction for the offense against her” (301-10), and the king obeyed her, deciding to hold a trial. If this text had been patriarchal, the king would have punished Lanval on his own terms rather than doing it for the queen. It appears that the Queen is treated as a sovereign equal to the King being allowed to hold political power in this