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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... dire ” 13 when calling a work a lay or a fabliau . One can understand why the Vair palefroi , Ille et Galeron , the Lai de l'ombre , the lays of Marie de France , and the anonymous lays , Ovidian lays , or works like the Lai de l ...
... dire digression , or the rejection of Nec- tanabus ' paternity in the Alexander romances . Thus completeness - the to- tality of the materia propinqua implied in Thomas ' en uni dire / unir formula - meshed with the conceptual ...
... dire vous la devise Si com cele le devisa . ( Atre 3995-97 ) [ But I have turned my attention away from relating to you her description of it . ] Once more , audience intent is a factor alongside topical significance . Anuis seroit , se ...