, and Literary Engagement with the Paradox Chrétien de Troyes's Chevalier de la charrette ( The Knight of the Cart , ca. 1180) brought the immortal pair Lancelot and Guinevere together as lovers for the first time. The characters existed in the German
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In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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Representations of Women in the French Imaginary
Historicizing the Gallic Singularity
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen
related cultural pattern that she calls “the equal-not equal paradox,” the distinctive combination of “intertwined assumptions that women were as competent as men of their same rank but legally inferior to them.” Her analysis of Chrétien de Troyes
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Introduction
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Pueri Sunt Pueri
Machismo, Chivalry, and the Aggressive Pastimes of the Medieval Male Youth
Sean McGlynn
, we can appreciate the point that he is making. Writing in about 1160, the troubadour Chrétien de Troyes (author of the some of the earliest Arthurian romances), gives us this account of a tournament: “On either side the ranks tremble and a roar rises
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- Research Article
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- 88–100 (13 total)
Gareth E. Hamilton
of modern languages), the etymology of the English word ‘travel’, borrowed from Old French traveillier, recalls the difficulties of travelling, and perhaps of medieval lays and quests such as Perceval's in search of the graal (Chrétien de Troyes
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Mar 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 33–57 (25 total)
“Give Me Back My Son!”
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emotion Talk, and the Gendering of Political Rhetoric
Linda E. Mitchell
as a patron of troubadours and writers of romance, such as Marie de France and Chrétien de Troyes, although this has been disputed by other historians. 3 The first major book-length study of Eleanor as a subject in her own right was that of Amy Kelly
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2018
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- Research Article
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Simone Fryer-Bovair
philosophy to medieval literature; see Putter’s ‘Story Line and Story Shape in Sir Percyvell of Gales and Chrétien de Troyes’s Conte du Graal ’, in Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Popular Romance , ed. Nicola McDonald (Manchester: Manchester