Extractions: SUBJECT OF BOOKS M. Borodine La femme dans l'oeuvre de Chrétien de Troyes . Paris, France: A. Picard et Fils. Brigitte Cazelles The Unholy Grail: A Social Reading of Chretien De Troyes' "Conte Du Graal" . Stanford University Press. Joseph J. Duggan The Romance of Chretien de Troyes . Yale University Press. Jean Frappier Chretien de Troyes: l'homme et l'oeuvre . Paris, France: Hatier. . Language: French. Jean Frappier . Translated by Raymond J. Cormier (from French). Chretien de Troyes: The Man and His Work . Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. Foster E. Guyer Chretien de Troyes: Inventor of the Modern Novel . New York: Bookman Associates. Urban Tigner Holmes Chretien de Troyes . Twayne. M. H. Jones; R. A. Wisbey (editor) Chrétien de Troyes and the German Middle Ages . Woodbridge, England: Boydell and Brewer, Ltd.. . 344pp. For the Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London. Douglas Kelly Chrétien de Troyes: An Analytic Bibliography . London: Grant and Cutler, Ltd..
Chrétien De Troyes Chr tien de Troyes Chr tien de Troyes is considered the greatest French poet and storyteller of the 12th century, who worked roughly from circa AD 1160 to 1185 . http://grailgate.com/LIBRARY/Chretien.htm
Extractions: Chrétien de Troyes Chrétien de Troyes is considered the greatest French poet and storyteller of the 12th century, who worked roughly from circa AD 1160 to 1185 . He is remembered for the poems Erec, Cliges, Le Chevalier de la Charette (Lancelot), Le Chevalier au Lion (Yva in) and Le Conte du Graal (Perceval). His works are often adaptations or combinations of earlier sources, and are set at the court of King Arthur. Although a skillful adapter, he was also an expert on courtly love , and an innovator because he coined the word graal (grail) and wrote the first quest for the grail. An example ( Encyclopædia Britannica Onli ne) of what's typically said about him: Chrétien de Troyes ( flourished 1165–80) "French poet who is known as the author of five Arthurian romances: Erec, Cligès Lancelot, ou Le Chevalier à la charrette Yvain, ou Le Chevalier au lion ; and Perceval, ou Le Conte du Graal The non-Arthurian tale Guillaume d'Angleterre , based on the legend of St. Eustace, may also have been written by Chrétien. Little is known of Chrétien's life. He apparently frequented the court of Marie, comtesse de Champagne, and he may have visited England. His tales, written in the vernacular, followed the appearance in France of Wace's
Chretien De Troyes@Everything2.com Twelfth century poet, and popularizer of the Arthurian Romance. He claims to be from Troyes, not far from Paris, and names Marie de Champagne (daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Chretien de Troyes&lastnode_id=1090