The last years of the Sasanid empire as reflected in the Persian romantic narrative tradition
The article moves from the hypothesis that many of the poems pertaining to the Persian medieval romantic tradition in verse (XII-XV centuries) seem to narrate a love story set in one and the same period of Iranian history: the epoch of one of the last great sovereigns of the Sasanid dynasty, Khusraw II Parvīz (r. 590-628 CE), and the years immediately following his reign.