the Arthurian romances

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• ARTHURIAN LEGENDS — ARTHURIAN LEGENDS. The only Hebrew version of the perennially popular Arthurian legends was written in northern Italy in 1279. It was anonymously translated into Hebrew from an Italian source now lost. Found in a unique manuscript in the Vatican… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• The Marriage of Sir Gawain — is an English Arthurian ballad, collected as Child Ballad 31.[1] Found in the Percy Folio, it is a fragmented account of the story of Sir Gawain and the loathly lady, which has been preserved in fuller form in the medieval poem The Wedding of Sir …   Wikipedia

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• Arthurian legend — Body of stories and medieval romances centring on the legendary English king Arthur. The stories chronicle Arthur s life, the adventures of his knights, and the adulterous love between his knight Sir Lancelot and his queen, Guinevere. The legend… …   Universalium

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• The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell for Helpying of Kyng Arthoure — (ca. 1450)    The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell is a 15th century poem of the Arthurian tradition. While hunting, King ARTHUR finds himself alone in the forest and is confronted by Sir Gromer Somer Jour who alleges that Arthur has… …   Encyclopedia of medieval literature

• Yvain: The Knight of the Lion —    by Chrétien de Troyes (ca. 1177)    Yvain was probably the third of CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES’s five extant ROMANCES, written sometime before or after the author’s unfinished LANCELOT. Unlike the more complex and morally ambivalent CLIGÈS, in which… …   Encyclopedia of medieval literature

• The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle — is one of several versions of the loathly lady story popular during the Middle Ages; an earlier version appears as The Wife of Bath s Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer s The Canterbury Tales , [ The Canterbury Tales , pp. 258–292.] and the later folk… …   Wikipedia

• Perceval: The Story of the Grail — (Conte du Graal)    by Chrétien de Troyes (ca. 1190)    The French poet CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES’s longest (at 9,200 lines) and most puzzling ROMANCE is his last, the unfinished Perceval, or Le Conte du Graal (The story of the Grail). The poem contains …   Encyclopedia of medieval literature

• The Lais of Marie de France — are a series of twelve short narrative poems in Anglo Norman, generally focused on glorifying the concepts of courtly love through the adventures of their main characters. Little is known of their author Marie, apart from that she was born in… …   Wikipedia