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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... Mort of the Vulgate cycle , they produce mesaventures or mescheances . When in the Queste the grail removes from Corbenic to Sarras , and thence into heaven , the local Arthurian and , finally , the entire world reverts from ...
... Mort Artu , marvels are no longer a source of knowledge ; all the knights die in the “ bataille . . . grans et merveilleuse " ( §182.1–2 ) [ bat- tle great and marvelous ] that ends the Arthurian world . " Sire , ce sont li geu de ...
... Mort : La Mort le roi Artu . Ed . Jean Frappier . 3d ed . Textes littéraires français , 58 . Geneva : Droz ; Paris : Minard , 1964 . Mule : La mule sans frein . In Two Old French Gauvain Romances , Part I : “ Le chevalier à l'épée " and ...