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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... sens in verse 20 : Li philesophe le saveient , Par eus meïsmes entendeient , Cum plus trespassereit li tens , Plus serreient sutil de sens E plus se savreient garder De ceo k'i ert a trespasser . ( Pro 17-22 ; emphasis mine ) 76 [ The ...
... sens of the receiving audience is as important as that of the authors and donors : it too must discern the ... sens to understand , just as , reciprocally , the artist's sens is the application of his or her antancion , as in the ...
... sens du monde " : Et qui vos verroit demander , S'en puet riens en romanz aprendre , Et je diroie sanz mesprendre , Qu'il i gist tout li sens du monde , Tant come il dure a la roonde , Car se les estoires ne fussent , Les genz de droit ...