Arthurian Romances Series

The original version of one of the greatest and most potent of medieval legends.

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Perceval lives cut off from the world, ignorant of everything, even his name. One day in the forest, he meets, five knights wearing their armor and decides to join the court of King Arthur to become a knight in turn. Thus begins the adventures of Perceval who face a hundred enemies, meets love and tries to unravel the mystery of the Grail. Will thisn aive child become a perfect knight?

Entre 1176 et 1181, Chrétien écrivit un roman consacré à Lancelot du Lac. Le Chevalier de la Charrette accable le plus magnifique chevalier de la cour d'Arthur d'un surnom méprisant, en l'associant à la charrette d'infamie réservée aux assassins et aux voleurs, dans laquelle le héros monte pourtant afin de retrouver sa bien-aimée. Quel forfait a-t-il commis, vers quel destin va-t-il, s'interrogent les foules rencontrées sur le chemin de son humiliation ? Comme un mauvais augure, toutes ces questions pèsent ainsi, dès son entrée dans notre littérature, sur la carrière héroïque de Lancelot du Lac qu'un amour fou et coupable unit à la reine Guenièvre, l'épouse du roi Arthur, celle entre toutes interdite.

This translation of Lancelot brings to English-language readers, the fourth of Chretien's five surviving romantic Arthurian poems. This poem was the first to introduce Lancelot as an important figure in the King Arthur legend.

Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la Charrette was composed in the late 12th century by Chrétien de Troyes and finished by Godefroi de Lagny (from the text: «Le clerc Godefroi de Lagny a achevé La Charrette. Mais que personne ne lui reproche d'avoir continué le travail de Chrétien, car il l'a fait avec le complet accord de Chrétien qui l'a commencé.»: traduction de Daniel Poirion in Chrétien de Troyes, Œuvres complètes, Gallimard, La Pléiade, 1994, p. 682). It was finished around 1180 (sources: The Princeton Charrette Project at Princeton University and The Charrette Project 2 at Baylor University) This poem was the first to introduce Lancelot as one of the leading figures in the King Arthur legend. It describes the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur - and the willingness of Lancelot to submit to the humiliation of being transported in the cart, the shameful vehicle used to carry men to their death on the gallows, in order to discover news of the abducted Queen Guinevere.

Published in 1987: Erec and Enide, the first of five surviving Arthurian romantic poems by a twelfth-century French poet, narrates a vivid chapter from the legend of King Arthur. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction, by William W. Kibler. 2. Select Bibliography. 3. Erec and Enide. 4 Textual Notes. 5. Index to Old French Terms. Appendix A: Line-Number Comparisons with Foerster's and Roques' Editions. Appendix B: Lines Added to Guiot's Text. Appendix C: Non-Emendation Changes to Roques' Text.

Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chrétien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Arthur's Queen Guinevere, and in The Knight with the Lion Yvain neglects his bride in his quest for greater glory. Erec and Enide explores a knight's conflict between love and honour, Cligés exalts the possibility of pure love outside marriage, while the haunting The Story of the Grail chronicles the legendary quest. Rich in symbolism, these evocative tales combine closely observed detail with fantastic adventure to create a compelling world that profoundly influenced Malory, and are the basis of the Arthurian legends we know today.

In this translation of Cliges, the second of five surviving Arthurian poems by 12th-century French poet Chretien de Troyes, Burton Raffel captures the original. In this poem, Chretien creates his most artful plot and paints the most starkly medieval portraits of any of his romances.