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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... Tradition and Transmission of Sources As French romance emerged in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries it drew on various streams of transmission . Three stand out . A learned , su- perimposed tradition in the Latin language of ...
... tradition , identified in French by Jean Rychner , admits an especially demand- ing variety he does not discuss and which does not seem to have been promi- nent in the French tradition : exact memorization.95 The free oral may ...
... tradition — a tradition the romancers were aware of , and within which they worked inventively . That tradition gave relevance to marvelous tales of old . Topical Invention of Narrative Significance Transmission tended to strip marvels ...