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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... conception of a subject . Second , material is sought and identified through which the initial conception may find appropriate statement and elaboration . Third , the mental conception and the materia are meshed as the subject matter of ...
... conception to the finished opus.81 One reduces the source material to a thema . " Sic enim gradatim descendendum est , donec inveniat animus in quo resideat et in quo complaceat " ( Documentum II.3.123 ) [ thus one descends by stages ...
... conception of the work . The technique was widespread in the Middle Ages , 105 Matthew envisages descriptio as elementary topical invention . By practice it becomes a habitual manner of conception , 10 % for “ informari aliqua proprie ...