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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... forme , ja mar querrés mellor . ( Alex APar III.4461-63 ) 45 [ God never made anything the shape and form of which he ( = the artist ) could not reproduce as well or even better if he set himself to it- none better could be found ...
... forme , ymage ne peinture Ne chose d'umaine nature Ne pot estre de sa beauté , — Bien poëit estre entre home et dé ; Nature humaine trespassot , Mais as deus ne s'apareillot ; Meins beaus esteit , mais , ço sai bien , Forme d'ome n'i ...
... forme d'analyse du passé et de ses sources , une activité intellectuelle , la mise en roman , dont la forme romanesque est , non pas le but , mais la conséquence . " 3 Mise en roman by the kind of invention we have identified in this ...