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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Douglas Kelly. refer to actual sources and when they refer to the romance itself.3 An obvi- ous and unequivocal ... refers to his sources : " Ne sai s'ert reis o cuens o dus , / Quar li Livres ne m'en dit plus " ( Troie 725-26 ) [ I don't ...
... refer to romance , the Romance lan- guage ( i.e. , French ) , or both , in the same passage . 17 Similarly , matiere and conte may , in a given instance , express the entire paradigm for invention . They may , therefore , refer to any ...
... refers to the meaning , signification , or context the author or patron gives to the romance , and , accordingly , the ... refer to the capacity to express and understand significant subject matter . Where the orthographical distinction ...