The Evolution of Arthurian Romance From the Beginnings Down to the Year 1300, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

The Evolution of Arthurian Romance From the Beginnings Down to the Year 1300, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Author: James Douglas Bruce
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2018-09-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781396330339

Excerpt from The Evolution of Arthurian Romance From the Beginnings Down to the Year 1300, Vol. 1 Morte Arthur, and Malory's great compilation in prose. In any event, the determining factor in the limitation of time which has here been adopted was that to have attempted to carry on the work any further would have meant an indefinite postponement of its completion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Evolution of Arthurian Romance

The Evolution of Arthurian Romance
Author: Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1998-05-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521411530

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 Enide and Froissart's Meliador, the first and last examples of the genre, and is unique in placing Chrétien's work, not as the unequalled masterpieces of the whole of Arthurian literature, but as the starting point for the history of the genre, which can subsequently be traced over a period of two centuries in the French-speaking world. Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann's study was first published in German in 1985, but her radical argument that we need urgently to redraw the lines on the literary and linguistic map of medieval Britain and France is only now being made available in English.