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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... Lance- lot Proper.291 Such additions were intended to be complete : " Ensi remest Lyoniaus avoc sa dame , ne plus ne parole cist contes de lui ne d'aventure qi li avenist , car il a son conte tot entier " ( Lancelot III.iv.22 * ) [ so ...
... lance et prouesse de messire Lancelot du lac messire Guiron le courtois fut delivré de prison " ( Guiron $ 132 n . 1 ) [ at that very place where we left our friends in prison my intention is to relate ... how the valiancy and prowess ...
... lances and shields run through this vast , frequently discontinuous narrative , serving to bind it together in an immense ... lance . Here the terms complexio , or parallel parts in separate se- quences , and distributio , or scattered ...