The Art of Medieval French RomanceDouglas Kelly provides a comprehensive and historically valid analysis of the art of medieval French romance as the romancers themselves describe it. He focuses on well-known writers, such as Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France, and also draws on a wide range of other sources—prose romances, non-Arthurian romances, thirteenth-century verse romances, and variant versions from the later Middle Ages. |
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... Gauvain . Lancelot is held responsible for an equally uncontrollable act , unwittingly killing Gaheriez . All these events are mescheances , extraordinary yet incomprehensible mishaps turned into abominations by sudden human judgment ...
... Gauvain . Moreover , Chrétien uses occupatio to pass over Gauvain's adventures with only brief accounts of their beginning and end . A number of manuscripts of the Vulgate describe Gau- vain's quest in detail , 103 thus restructuring ...
... Gauvain in Old French Literature . Degré Second , 2. Amster- dam : Rodopi . Busby , Keith 1985 : “ Le roman des eles as Guide to the sens of Meraugis de Portles- guez . " In The Spirit of the Court , ed . G. S. Burgess and R. A. Taylor ...