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Four Arthurian Romances: Foundational Tales of Arthurian Legend, Chivalry, and Courtly Love
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515428794
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Four Arthurian Romances brings together foundational medieval tales of chivalry, love, honour, adventure, and the Arthurian world. Chrétien de Troyes stands among the most important writers of medieval romance, helping shape the literary traditions of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Lancelot, Yvain, courtly love, knightly testing, and the moral trials of chivalric identity. These stories helped establish many of the narrative patterns that would echo through later Arthurian literature, fantasy, romance, and European storytelling.
Written in the twelfth century, Chrétien's romances combine adventure, marvels, psychological conflict, courtly ideals, and spiritual tension with a narrative sophistication that remains striking. This collection offers essential reading for students and readers of Arthurian legend, medieval literature, chivalric romance, classic fantasy sources, courtly love, French literature, and the early development of European fiction. It is a key text for understanding how the Matter of Britain became one of the central imaginative traditions of the Western literary canon.
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