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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... story leaves them to return to my lord Boort of Gaunes . Now , the story reports that upon taking leave of Lancelot , as related above , Boort rode on until nones ] . By contrast , the effectiveness of Chrétien's use of iuncturae ...
... story out of which Chrétien made his ro- mance . The book is very old , which vouchsafes the story's veracity ; this makes it more credible . ] Passages like this anticipate the Escoufle's distinction between the actual ro- mance and ...
... story or stories . When he had col- lected and combined this materia with secondary sources and his own con- ception of the work expressed through various real or potential amplifications , he had the materia propinqua in a Latin ...