CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES

or Chrestien de Troyesboth: krātyăNˈ də trwä, fl. 1170, French poet, author of the first great literary treatments of the Arthurian legend. His narrative romances, composed c.1170–c.1185 in octosyllabic rhymed couplets, include Érec et Énide; Cligès; Lancelot, le chevalier de la charette; Yvain, le chevalier au lion; and Perceval, le conte del Graal, unfinished (see Parsifal). Chrétien drew on popular legend and history, and imbued his romances with the ideals of chivalry current at the 12th-century court of Marie de Champagne, to which he was attached. His other surviving works include imitations of Ovid and Guillaume d'Angleterre, a non-Arthurian narrative. Translations of the Arthurian romances are included in W. W. Comfort's edition (1913) and in R. S. and L. H. Loomis, Medieval Romances (1957).

See L. T. Ropsfield, Chrétien de Troyes: A Study of the Arthurian Romances (1981); J. Frappier, Chretién de Troyes: The Man and His Work (1982); N. J. Lacy et al., ed., The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes (2 vol., 1988).

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Victims, Authority, and Terror: The Parallel Deaths of d'orlaeans, Custine, Bailly, and Malesherbes
Book by George Armstrong Kelly; University of North Carolina Press, 1982
Subjects: Bailly, Jean Sylvain--1736-1793, Custine, Adam Philippe--comte de--1740-1793, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Biography, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes, Malesherbes, Chretien Guillaume de Lamoignon de--1721-1794, Orleans, Louis Philippe Joseph--duc d'--1747-1793
...Extraordinaire, 88 , 125 , 127 , 131 , 187 , 200 , 274 , 275 Trier, 116 , 119 Troglodytes, 250 Tronchet, Joseph, 249 , 267 , 270 Troyes, 45 Tuileries, 37 , 59 , 60 , 66 , 79 , 126 , 167 , 182 , 183 , 199 Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques de, 10 , 15 , 44 , 58...
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The Unholy Grail: A Social Reading of Chraetien de Troyes's Conte Du Graal
Book by Brigitte Cazellles; Stanford University, 1996
Subjects: Arthurian Romances--History And Criticism, Chivalry In Literature, Grail--Romances--History And Criticism, Literature And Society, Perceval (Legendary Character)--Romances--History And Criticism, Social History--Medieval, 500-1500
...Peter. Aesthetic Distance in Chretien de Troyes: Irony and Comedy in Cliges...Coupee: Lecart symbolique chez Chretien de Troyes . Geneva: Droz, 1972. Hanning...Sister M. Amelia Klenke. Chretien, Troyes, and the Grail . Chapel Hill...
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Medieval Identity Machines
Book by Jeffrey J. Cohen; University of Minnesota Press, 2003
Subjects: Body, Human--Social Aspects--History, Body, Human--Symbolic Aspects--History, Civilization, Medieval, Civilization, Medieval--Study And Teaching, Identity (Philosophical Concept), Identity (Psychology), Middle Ages--Study And Teaching, Social History--Medieval, 500-1500
...whom lived in the area around Troyes. Because almost nothing is known about Chretien, this hypothesis can be nothing...attacked by crusaders-relocated to Troyes. See Holmes and Amelia Klenke, Chretien, Troyes and the Grail, 5-13, 51...
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Aspects of Jewish Culture in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Eighth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 3-5 May, 1974
Book by Paul E. Szarmach; State University of New York Press, 1979
Subjects: Christianity And Antisemitism--History--To 1500--Congresses, Grail--Congresses, Jews--History--70-1789--Historiography--Congresses, Jews--Spain--History--Congresses, Judaism And Art--Congresses, Spain--History--Arab Period, 711-1492--Congresses
...Cambridge, 1920 ; Jean Frappier, Chretien de Troyes, lHomme et lOeuvre Paris...Holmes and Amelia Klenke, Chretien, Troyes and the Grail Chapel Hill...Imagery and Significance of Chretien de Troyes Grail Episode Based upon Medieval...
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Visio Pacis, Holy City and Grail: An Attempt at an Inner History of the Grail Legend
Book by Helen Adolf; Pennsylvania State University Press, 1960
Subjects: Fiction, Grail
...Loomis, Arthurian Tradition and Chretien de Troyes New York, 1949 ; J. Marx...d. Gr .; J. Frappier , Chretien de Troyes: lHomme et lOeuvre Paris...Amelia Klenke, O. P., Chretien, Troyes, and the Grail Chapel Hill...
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Les Manuscrits De Chretien De Troyes/The Manuscripts of Chretien De Troyes
Journal article by Martin Kauffmann; Medium Aevum, Vol. 67, 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Les Manuscrits de Chretien de Troyes (Book)--Reviews
Les Manuscrits de Chretien de Troyes/The Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes by Martin Kauffmann Les Manuscrits de Chretien de Troyes/The Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes...
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Douglas Kelly, Chretien De Troyes: Supplement I
Journal article by Lori Walters; Medium Aevum, Vol. 73, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Chretien de Troyes: Supplement I, Research Bibliographies and Checklists (Book)--Book reviews
Douglas Kelly, Chretien De Troyes: Supplement I. by Lori Walters Douglas Kelly, Chretien de Troyes: Supplement I, Research Bibliographies...1976 when Douglas Kelly published Chretien de Troyes: An Analytic Bibliography. The...
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Courtly Love and Christian Marriage: Chretien De Troyes, Chaucer, and Henry VIII
Journal article by David Lyle Jeffrey; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 59, 2010
Subjects: Authors, English--Criticism and interpretation, Chaucer, Geoffrey--Criticism and interpretation, Chivalry--Analysis, Chretien de Troyes--Criticism and interpretation, Church history, 600-1500 (Middle Ages)--Analysis, Church history--Analysis, Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Courtly love--Analysis, English writers--Criticism and interpretation, French poets--Criticism and interpretation, Henry VIII, King of England--Criticism and interpretation, Husband and wife--Analysis, Husband-wife relations--Analysis, Marriage--Analysis, Medieval romances--Analysis, The Art of Courtly Love (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation
...Love and Christian Marriage: Chretien De Troyes, Chaucer, and Henry VIII...In an inventive essay on Chretien de Troyes Lancelot du Lac (1883) he...indistinguishable from soap opera. Chretien de Troyes in the Court of Marie de Champagne...
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A Companion to Chretien De Troyes
Journal article by Ann Mccullough; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: A Companion to Chretien de Troyes (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
A Companion to Chretien De Troyes. by Ann McCullough A Companion to Chretien de Troyes. Ed. by NORRIS J. LACY and JOAN TASKER...the background leading up to the works of Chretien de Troyes, including a contribution by one of the editors...
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A Companion to Chretien De Troyes
Journal article by Virginie Greene; Medium Aevum, Vol. 75, 2006
Subjects: A Companion to Chretien de Troyes (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
A Companion to Chretien De Troyes. by Virginie Greene A Companion to Chretien de Troyes, ed. Norris J. Lacy and Joan Tasker Grimbert, Arthurian Studies 63 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005), xiv + 242 pp. ISBN 1-84384-050-2. 45...
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Looking for the Holy Grail: Richard Barber Explores the Origin of the Holy Grail Story, Its Significance in Its Own Time and Its Wider Impact in Subsequent Centuries
Magazine article by Richard Barber; History Today, Vol. 54, March 2004
Subjects: Grail--Criticism and interpretation, Grail--History
...this account was written down by Chretien de Troyes, probably a native of the French...reaches the Grail again, because Chretien seems to have died before lie...everyday life. FOR FURTHER READING Chretien de Troyes, Perceval: the story of the...
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The Real Sword in the Stone: The Sword in the Stone of St. Galgano, a Twelfth-Century Tuscan Hermit, Has Been Investigated, and the Striking Coincidences between His Life and Parts of the Arthurian Legends Are Examined
Magazine article by Luigi Garlaschelli; Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 30, May-June 2006
Subjects: Arthur, King of the Britons--Research, Grail--History, Grail--Research, Saints--Identification and classification, Saints--Research
...found in the later Perceval and Lancelot poems by Chretien de Troyes. Galganos real life was fading away into these...daughter Marie de Champagne, where artists like Chretien de Troyes who were creating the Arthurian cycle (between...
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Than Longen Folk to Goon on Pilgrimages
Magazine article by Joseph Bottum; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, March 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Canterbury Tales (Poetry collection)--Book reviews
...out of French. Hes done "Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments" for the Modern Library, together with Chretien de Troyes old French tales of chivalry. Hes even translated Beowulf--and that may be part of what is wrong with this new...
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A Loss for Words
Magazine article by James Quandt; Artforum International, Vol. 48, March 2010
Subjects: Filmmakers--Criticism and interpretation, Movie directors--Criticism and interpretation, Rohmer, Eric--Criticism and interpretation
...speech, while not everything in Rohmers cinema, is its defining feature. "A wagging tongue bites itself." The Chretien de Troyes apothegm that introduces Pauline at the Beach wittily suggests the logorrhea of Rohmers characters--their wagging...
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King Arthur and the Making of an English Britain
Magazine article by Alan Maccoll; History Today, Vol. 49, March 1999
Subjects: Arthur, King of the Britons--Biography, Kings and rulers--England, Scotland--History, United Kingdom--History, Wales--History
...accomplished. A striking example of life imitating art, Prince Edwards vow is straight out of the Conte del Graal of Chretien de Troyes, which includes a scene where Perceval swears never to sleep more than one night in the same place until he has...
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Grail; Medieval Writers Invented Quest for the Holy Vessel
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 4, 2004
...12th century, the French writer Chretien de Troyes penned a prose romance about an...This story, left unfinished when Chretien died in 1190, is the first mention...whatever we want it to mean. But for Chretien, who started it all, it was...
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My Quest for the Holy Grail; the Daving Code Week RICHARD HAMMOND TACKLES HISTORY'S GREATEST MYSTERY
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 15, 2006
...along pretty much every generation. A bloke named Chretien de Troyes came up with a good one. It was a global success...protection against exhaustion. 1180-1191 AUTHOR Chretien de Troyes writes the story of Perceval (left), a teenager...
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On the Grail Trail
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 18, 2006
...Dan Browns of the day - Chroniclers such as Frances Chretien de Troyes and our own Sir Thomas Malory who, banged up in the...disappeared in 1204. In 1610 it was recorded at Frances Troyes Cathedral, but vanished again, this time for good...
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DAILY POST YOUR VOICE IN WALES: A Helping Hand with the Hallows
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 24, 2007
...come to light via the Celtic-leaning Arthurian grail legends. In the version written by 12th century French poet Chretien de Troyes, one of King Arthurs knights, Perceval, finds the Holy Grail - the cup from which Jesus drank wine at the last...
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Peering Past the Celtic Mist
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 11, 2009
...return to drive the Anglo-Saxons back into the sea. But in Geoffrey and all subsequent myth-tellers, especially Chretien de Troyes, whose French version added the Holy Grail legend, Arthur is the king of a Christian court. Courtly love was...
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ChrÉtien De Troyes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHRETIEN DE TROYES or Chrestien de Troyes both: kratyaN...1957). See L. T. Ropsfield, Chretien de Troyes: A Study of the Arthurian Romances (1981); J. Frappier, Chretien de Troyes: The Man and His Work (1982...
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Champagne , Region and Former Province, France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...exported by France. Reims and Troyes are the center of the areas textile...famous for its great fairs, held at Troyes (the capital), Provins, Lagny...brilliance, culminating in the work of Chretien de Troyes and in the Gothic cathedral at...
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Parsifal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Percivale, who finds the Grail. Chretien de Troyes is the author of the first great...medieval poems. Drawn largely from Chretien, von Eschenbachs story is highly...Loomis, Arthurian Tradition Chretien de Troyes (1949) and Arthurian Literature...
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Middle English Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...retain elements of the Anglo-Saxon heroic tradition. However, French romances, notably the Arthurian romances of Chretien de Troyes , were far more influential than their English counterparts. In England French romances popularized ideas of adventure...
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Mabinogion
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Geraint, The Lady of the Fountain, and Peredur. It seems probable that the first two shared with the works of Chretien de Troyes common sources written in French, and that the last drew on the vast body of Grail tradition. The Four Branches...
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