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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... reading of discrescion in the me- dieval sense of descriptio as topical amplification , 254 a meaningful reading emerges for the problematic passage . The thema is joy , and that joy is " per- fect , " that is , simple and whole.255 But ...
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