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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... a whole . Et la pucele vint plus cointe Et plus acesmee et plus jointe Que espreviers ne papegauz . ( Perceval 1795-97 ; my emphasis ) [ And the maiden arrived appearing more elegant , gorgeous , and shapely than a sparrow hawk or a ...
... aurait trouvé d'assez mau- vais goût que son romancier se targue d'une commande qu'il ne lui aurait jamais passée ou d'un intérêt qu'il ne lui aurait pas témoigné . " 24 Pierre Gallais does not deny the obscurity of many assertions ...
... aurait consulté et exploité , mais le livre même qu'il composait : façon de parler habituelle des auteurs du moyen ... a big one , and the Book relates it first ] . Other cases are not so straightforward . For example , in Alexandre de ...