Chrétien de Troyes (Modern French: [kʁetjɛ̃ də tʁwa]; Old French: Crestien de Troies [kresˈtjẽn də ˈtrojəs]; fl. c. 1160–1191) was a French poet and trouvère...
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ISBN 9781783161461 Chrétien de Troyes, Nigel Bryant (translator) (1996) Perceval, the Story of the Grail, D. S. Brewer. ISBN 0-85991-224-8. Chrétien de Troyes, D. D...
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Erec and Enide (category Works by Chrétien de Troyes)
Erec and Enide (French: Érec et Énide) is the first of Chrétien de Troyes' five romance poems, completed around 1170. It is one of three completed works...
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Yvain, the Knight of the Lion (category Works by Chrétien de Troyes)
Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion) is an Arthurian romance by French poet Chrétien de Troyes. It was written c. 1180 simultaneously with Lancelot, the Knight of...
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Holy Grail (section Chrétien de Troyes)
the Grail, an unfinished chivalric romance written by Chrétien de Troyes around 1190. Chrétien's story inspired many continuations, translators and interpreters...
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Knights of the Round Table (redirect from Sir Ector de Maris)
the story begins). Chrétien de Troyes suggested around 500 knights in his early romance Erec and Enide. In the same work, Chrétien catalogued many of...
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Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (redirect from Le Chevalier de la Charrette)
Lancelot, le Chevalier de la charrette), is a 12th-century Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes, although it is believed that Chrétien did not complete the...
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name include: Chrétien de Troyes, 12th-century French poet Chrétien Le Clercq, 17th-century Roman Catholic missionary Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759–1845)...
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where Chrétien de Troyes would have encountered the name Camulodunum, or why he would render it as Camaalot, though Urban T. Holmes argued Chrétien could...
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Perceval, the Story of the Grail (category Works by Chrétien de Troyes)
romances by Chrétien de Troyes seldom exceed 7,000 lines. Perceval is dedicated to Chrétien's patron Philip I, Count of Flanders. Chrétien claimed to be...
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Cligès (category Works by Chrétien de Troyes)
Cligès (also Cligés) is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. It is the second of his five Arthurian romances;...
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Medieval dance (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Chrétien de Troyes in his series of Arthurian romances. In the wedding scene in Erec and Enide (about 1170) Puceles carolent et dancent, Trestuit de joie...
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Lancelot (section Chrétien and Ulrich)
Lancelot's first datable appearance as main character is found in Chrétien de Troyes' 12th-century French poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, which...
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Holy Grail, such as in Perceval, the Story of the Grail written by Chrétien de Troyes in the 1180s. The character of the wandering knight existed in romantic...
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de Troyes surname or a variant include: Chrétien de Troyes (1160–1191), French poet and trouvère known for his writing on Arthurian subjects John de Troye...
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is south and eastern England. However, Arthurian writers such as Chrétien de Troyes and Wolfram von Eschenbach have differed in their interpretations...
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south-east of Paris. Troyes is situated within the Champagne wine region and is near the Orient Forest Regional Natural Park. Troyes had a population of...
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for its absence of magical elements, its drawing on the material of Chrétien de Troyes for plot elements and the substantial age difference between Arthur...
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Raoul de Houdenc was esteemed as a master poet in the ranks of Chrétien de Troyes by Huon de Méry (Tournoiement de l’Antéchrist, 1226). Raoul de Houdenc...
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highly influential cycle expands on Robert de Boron's "Little Grail Cycle" and the works of Chrétien de Troyes, previously unrelated to each other, by supplementing...
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King Arthur (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Camlann, and final rest in Avalon. The 12th-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes, who added Lancelot and the Holy Grail to the story, began the genre...
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Chrétien De Troyes: Le Roman De Perceval ou Le Conte Du Graal, Librairie Droz, 1959, p. 173. Loomis, R. S. Arthurian Tradition and Chrétien de Troyes...
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that also appear in the work of Chrétien de Troyes. Critics have debated whether the Welsh Romances are based on Chrétien's poems or if they derive from...
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northern dialects of France. One of the first known trouvères was Chrétien de Troyes (fl. 1160s–1180s) and the trouvères continued to flourish until about...
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legends. As a literary character, the Fisher King originates in Chrétien de Troyes's unfinished writings of the adventures of Perceval. Many authors have...
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unrelated to Arthur. Therein, and in the early chivalric romances by Chrétien de Troyes and others, Morgan's chief role is that of a great healer. Several...
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Mythology pub. Oxford University Press, 1998, p.223. Chrétien de Troyes, 'Erec et Enide' in Chrétien de Troyes - Arthurian Romances, translated from the Old...
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them evermore." In Erec and Enide, an early Arthurian romance by Chrétien de Troyes, a "friend" (i.e. lover) of Morgan early during King Arthur's rule...
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abductor Melwas; as Maleagant, he debuts as Lancelot's archenemy in Chrétien de Troyes' French romance Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart. However, all surviving...
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one of the Four Continuations of Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, French, 1553, f. 288r-325v...
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