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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... Belle Esmeree in Le bel inconnu . But in all these cases , romance achieves the reduction of marvelous phenomena by nar- rative order whether that order emanates from a beneficial or a malicious source in this world or some other ...
... Belle Enide " becomes " bonne Enide " through the quest . 226 A similar link between appellation and achievement occurs in the Charrette . Like Julius Caesar's name , which Matthew of Vendôme makes typical for emperor , Lancelot's name ...
... Belle Enide , bonne Enide . " In Mélanges Pierre Le Gentil . Paris : SEDES and CDN . Pp . 767-71 . Sargent - Baur , Barbara Nelson 1984 : " Promotion to Knighthood in the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes . " Romance Philology 37 : 393–408 ...