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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... conjointure by roman : " Veul un roumant estraire / D'un molt biel conte d'aventure " ( 4-5 ) [ I wish to draw a romance out from a very beautiful tale of adventure ] . Roman as conjoin- ture will therefore serve as a point of departure ...
... conjointure distinct from , but analogous to , the specifically literary sense found in Chrétien : the union of body and soul ; 7 human relationships ( conjugal , sexual , feudal ... conjointure and desjointure is Conjointure 17.
... conjointure can be described in both modern and medi- eval terminology , a fact that suggests their fundamental compatibility — their reciprocal historical validity - in spite of the different critical presuppositions and the diverse ...