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The Roman de Thèbes and the Roman d'Eneas translated in this book belong to a group of Old French texts known as the romances of antiquity (romans d'antiquité). Composed between c. 1150 and c. 1165, they create a bridge between classical tales and the burgeoning French romances as represented especially by Chrétien de Troyes.

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Best known through the seafaring tale Navigatio sancti Brendani, St. Brendan still figures high on the list of possible discoverers of America. This book presents the surviving Brendan texts and the scholarly work inspired by the real and the legendary St. Brendan in the form of a critical bibliography. It lists primary material, mainly manuscripts, editions and translations.

Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, dating to around 1165, is, along with the Roman de Thèbes and the Roman d'Eneas, one of the three "romances of antiquity" (romans d'antiquité). These romances launched the plots, themes and structures of the genre, then blossoming in the hands of authors such as Chrétien de Troyes. As an account of the Trojan War, Benoît's work is of necessity a poem about war and its causes, how it was fought and what ...

Text with facing translation of an undeservedly neglected, humorous French lay, in which the women of Arthur's court have their virtue challenged by a magic mantle.

A listing of the latest publications on Marie de France.

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The International Courtly Literature Society was founded in 1973 to foster the study of all aspects of courtly literature - an interest not limited to European medievalists, although they provide one of the society's main focuses. The ICLS holds triennial international conferences, the third in Liverpool, England in 1980. Professor Glyn Burgess has edited a volume containing about one-third of the papers presented there. He opens it with the t...

Text and facing translation of a selection of French narrative lays, with Arthurian subject matter and interest.

The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions" deals with the vast textual tradition relating to on the Irish Saint Brendan, known as 'The Navigator'. The book deals with the interrelated problems of the textual and literary embedding of Brendan texts and it highlights the versatility of textual traditions throughout Western Europe.

Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn belong in the great tradition of medieval outlaws, and aspects of their lives, part-fact, part-fiction, find a reflection in the life of that most famous of all outlaws, Robin Hood. This title presents the historical reality of their respective 'heroes', important but neglected figures, who born around 1170.

Bibliographical guide to the Old French narrative lay, listing editions, translations, critical studies and reviews.

This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages. Principally focused on the production, dissemination, and evolution of Arthurian material from the twelfth to fifth centuries, this volume covers writing in both verse and prose, and addresses such classics as the Tristan legend, the "Vulgate Cycle, " and the Grail Continuations.

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42 papers on all aspects of court-orientated culture, ranging from the period of the earliest troubadour, William of Poitiers, in the twelfth century, to the Renaissance and beyond.