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The Beginnings of Arthurian Story Arthurian romance is known to us in its best and purest fonn through the lays and romances that were produced in France during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries It is a body of preeminently imaginative literature, and although it reflects the chivalnc life of France at the tune in which it was and mystery, of prowess, beauty, love, and enchantment, where valorous heroes achieve impossible adventures, and messengers from fairyland appear easily and naturally on marvellous errands A brilliant part of our literary heritage from France, it does not, however, like the chansons de geste, the great Carokngian epics, represent French national legend It is a composite whole, which embodies Oriental stones, bits of classical myth, and above all Celtic tradition, those idle and pleasant tales of Britain, as they were called by a twelfth-century French poet, Jean Bodel, who justly gave to the Arthurian material the designation that has ever since clung to it, the matter of Britain l Inthis material the central name, but not the most prominent figure, is that of A rthur, King of Britain, for Arthur himself in the romances is little more than a rot faineant, who remains in the background, while the true glory of adventure belongs to the knights whose proudest boast it is that they are attached to his court Never could his name have become so potent, if he had not mearlier tradition been accredited with more valiant deeds than he accomplishes in romance It is not in the romances alone, however, that Arthurian story is recorded, and such light as we have upon Arthur searly fame is shed from literature of a different class The mediaeval chronicles are a valuable source for our knowledge of the legend, which although it has but a slender historical basis, rests upon established fact Nothing apparently could Chv Ktm fc$ Sauna (ed Michel, Pa
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- ÉditeurSagwan Press
- Date d'édition2015
- ISBN 10 1298942926
- ISBN 13 9781298942920
- ReliureRelié
- Nombre de pages302
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