The Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan LiteratureGlyn Sheridan Burgess, Karen Pratt This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages". Its intention is to update the French and Occitan chapters in R.S. Loomis' "Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History" (Oxford, 1959) and to provide a volume which will serve the needs of students and scholars of Arthurian literature. The principal focus is the production, dissemination and evolution of Arthurian material in French and Occitan from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. Beginning with a substantial overview of Arthurian manuscripts, the volume covers writing in both verse (Wace, the Tristan legend, Chretien de Troyes and the Grail Continuations, Marie de France and the anonymous lays, the lesser known romances) and prose (the Vulgate Cycle, the prose Tristan, the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal, etc.). -- From publisher's website. |
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... Estoire repeatedly employs the phrase ci endroit ( in the formula Ci endroit dist li contes ) instead of or , thus replacing temporal narrative markers characteristic of earlier texts with spatial ones . The Queste offers the more ...
... Estoire repeatedly employs the phrase ci endroit ( in the formula Ci endroit dist li contes ) instead of or , thus replacing temporal narrative markers characteristic of earlier texts with spatial ones . The Queste offers the more ...
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... Estoire was influenced by another monastic order . Whatever the case , the difference between the two texts is striking ; whilst the Queste deals with individual salvation in terms of a quest for a glimpse of the divine ( even if each ...
... Estoire was influenced by another monastic order . Whatever the case , the difference between the two texts is striking ; whilst the Queste deals with individual salvation in terms of a quest for a glimpse of the divine ( even if each ...
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... Estoire del Saint Graal , and not as in the Huth codex , the prose rendering of Robert's Joseph must have preceded the Merlin . This is evident from the fact that there is in the P - V Queste a specific reference to an incident related ...
... Estoire del Saint Graal , and not as in the Huth codex , the prose rendering of Robert's Joseph must have preceded the Merlin . This is evident from the fact that there is in the P - V Queste a specific reference to an incident related ...
Contents
The Manuscripts | 8 |
The Arthur of the Chronicles | 93 |
The Tristan Legend in Old French Verse | 112 |
Copyright | |
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