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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... geste , it is no paradox to assert that the chanson de geste is a genre without any surviving example : all disappeared at the moment of performance - in ventos vita recessit . Nor was there any way , at the begin- ning of a performance ...
... geste claim to report reliable eyewitnesses and documents . Çeo dit la Geste e cil ki el camp fut : Li ber Gilie , por qui Deus fait vertuz , E fist la chartre el muster de Loum . Ki tant ne set ne l'ad prod entendut . ( Roland I , 2095 ...
... geste et roman courtois ( analyse compara- tive du Fierabras et du Bel Inconnu ) . ” In Chanson de geste und höfischer Roman . Heidelberger Kolloquium , 30. Januar 1961. Studia romanica , 4 . Heidelberg : Winter . P. 61-77 . Jauss ...