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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... vient sa besongne . ( Lycorne 8564-69 ) [ to teach how lovers should conduct themselves . For he or she who wishes to delight in love should eschew all wrongdoing ; and by acting accord- ingly , his or her undertaking will come to a ...
... vient a reclain Si volantiers quant il a fain , Que plus volantiers n'i venissent , Einçois que il s'antre tenissent ( Erec 2027-32 ) [ A stag pursued by hunters and panting with thirst doesn't desire the foun- tain , nor does the ...
... vient . Jehan 4723-25 ) [ I don't want to describe any more , beyond asserting that her beauty il- luminates every place she goes . ] After the expression of the abstract quality subsuming the person or action— " Lour mes ne vous vol ...