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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... grail - serve successive meditations on commonplace per- sons and things made unique . The representation — as ... grail in the vari- ous grail romances ( a variation that betokens its mystery or ineffability , and borders on ...
Douglas Kelly. Their careers are also unique , terminologically distinguished from the grail adventures by words like mescheance and mesaventure . 125 The special sta- tus of a grail knight may be exemplified through Lancelot . Lancelot ...
... grail seems to sweep all else aside , as if its light were now so brilliant as to make details indiscernible ... grail does not relate them because it would take too much time to relate all their adventures ] . The same is true for ...