Twelfth-century France has been described as the key to many of the most important developments of medieval civilization. Nowhere is this description more accurate than in the domain of poetic invention. The years 1050 to 1200 witnessed the development of a brilliant body of ver…
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Twelfth-century France has been described as the key to many of the most important developments of medieval civilization. Nowhere is this description more accurate than in the domain of poetic invention. The years 1050 to 1200 witnessed the development of a brilliant body of ver…
This dissertation offers a genesis for medieval Grail romances as a challenge to the conception of piety promulgated by the reformed clergy during the crusades. It combines literary and historical analyses to ask why Arthurian writers, who produced for and represented secular cu…
This thesis examines the treatment of the archetypes of the shadow and the anima in three versions of the Arthurian legends: Arthurian Romances , by Chrétien de Troyes; Le Morte Darthur , by Sir Thomas Malory; and the Idylls of the King , by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The theories o…
Contrary to traditional criticism of Chrétien de Troyes, the thesis posits that his romances are a veiled criticism of the social and moral conduct, as well as spiritual beliefs, of twelfth-century Christian society. In Chrétien's romances, the protagonist finds only the worst a…
""Das Land, von welchem niemand wiederkehrt"" : Mythos, Fiktion u. Wahrheit in Chrétiens ""Chevalier de la Charrete"", im ""Lanzelet"" Ulrichs von Zatzikhoven u. im ""Lancelot""-Prosaroman.
The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden …
The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden …
This 1998 study serves as a contribution to both reception history, examining the medieval response to Chrétien's poetry, and genre history, suveying the evolution of Arthurian verse romance in French. It describes the evolutionary changes taking place between Chrétien's Eric et…
This 1998 study serves as a contribution to both reception history, examining the medieval response to Chrétien's poetry, and genre history, suveying the evolution of Arthurian verse romance in French. It describes the evolutionary changes taking place between Chrétien's Eric et…
