Chrétien de Troyes in Prose: The Burgundian Erec and Cligés

by Chrétien de Troyes

First English translations of later adaptions of Chr?tien's romances: a vital source for the development of Arthurian romance.

In the middle of the fifteenth century two anonymous writers translated into prose Chr?tien de Troyes's first verse romances, Erec and Clig?s (dating from the twelfth century), for the circle of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. For a long time unfairly dismissed as trite and slavish renderings of Chr?tien's masterful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843842696
• ISBN13: 9781843842699
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"