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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... armes au trenchant de l'espee , / Tant tue et tant abat c'oevre samble faee " ( Parfait 2930–31 ) 139 [ and Porrus performs so many feats of arms with his sword's cutting edge , he kills and strikes so many , that his accomplishments ...
... armes portet e en bon cheval set ; En bataille deit estre forz e fiers , U altrement ne valt .IIII . deners ; Einz deit monie estre en un de cez mustiers , Si prierat tuz jurz por noz peccez . ( Roland I , 1877-82 ) [ Such should be the ...
... armes , lors disoient cil del païs qu'il estoient de haut lignage . ( Queste p . 95.13-22 ) [ For he was one of the world's knights who loved our Lord most perfectly . And yet this went against the prevailing custom of the land . For ...