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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... writing . Such reflection would use language , and therefore preconceptions , available in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . The vernacular authors brought Latin techniques into the secular world , us- ing them for adaptations from ...
... writing was supposed to illustrate the Ciceronian ideal of sapientia and eloquentia . The ideal , which became ... writing in prose and verse , and included the study of " good literature . " Analysis of the parts of speech , close ...
... writing through the schools . But there survive as well from former indigenous traditions the legendary heroes ... Writing The close relation between emergent romance and contemporary vernacular and Latin historical writing is reflected ...