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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... unique exemplar of beauty and virtue , despite the proclamation of Enide's unique excellence in Erec , and , closer to Fenice , even after Cligés ' mother , Soredamors , is praised for her extraordinary - and unique - qualities ( 439-49 ...
... unique re - creation . Unlike the adapted commonplaces regarding the uniqueness of women's beauty , adventures , as the manifestation of fortune and passageway to mar- vels , may or may not be unique . Calogrenant's defeat at the ...
... unique horse ; and so the adventure by which Alexander tames him must be unique . Bucifal required his master to assume his proper role ( Alex Apar 1.484 ) , just as Perceval allows Agloval some of his uniqueness . 128 The horse is just ...