A report on Chivalric romance
Type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
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Chivalry
9 linksInformal and varying code of conduct developed between 1170 and 1220.
Informal and varying code of conduct developed between 1170 and 1220.
The meaning of the term evolved over time into a broader sense, because in the Middle Ages the meaning of chevalier changed from the original concrete military meaning "status or fee associated with a military follower owning a war horse" or "a group of mounted knights" to the ideal of the Christian warrior ethos propagated in the romance genre, which was becoming popular during the 12th century, and the ideal of courtly love propagated in the contemporary Minnesang and related genres.
Don Quixote
8 linksSpanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
The plot revolves around the adventures of a member of the lowest nobility, an hidalgo from La Mancha named Alonso Quijano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he either loses or pretends to have lost his mind in order to become a knight-errant (caballero errante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha (in modern-day Spanish, spelled Quijote).
King Arthur
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King Arthur (Brenin Arthur, Arthur Gernow, Roue Arzhur) was a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries.
Le Morte d'Arthur
7 links15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, along with their respective folklore.
15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, along with their respective folklore.
In addition to the vast Vulgate Cycle in its different variants, as well as the English poems Morte Arthur and Morte Arthure, Malory's other original source texts were identified as several French standalone chivalric romances, including Erec et Enide, L'âtre périlleux, Perlesvaus, and Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion (or its English version, Ywain and Gawain), as well as John Hardyng's English Chronicle.
Emaré
5 linksEmaré is a Middle English Breton lai, a form of mediaeval romance poem, told in 1035 lines.
Chanson de geste
4 linksMedieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature.
Medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature.
The earliest known poems of this genre date from the late 11th and early 12th centuries, shortly before the emergence of the lyric poetry of the troubadours and trouvères, and the earliest verse romances.
Novel
4 linksRelatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book.
Relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book.
According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English.
Morgan le Fay
4 linksSpyrys), is a powerful and ambiguous enchantress from the legend of King Arthur, in which most often she and he are siblings.
Spyrys), is a powerful and ambiguous enchantress from the legend of King Arthur, in which most often she and he are siblings.
Therein, and in the early chivalric romances by Chrétien de Troyes and others, Morgan's chief role is that of a great healer.
Medievalism
3 linksSystem of belief and practice inspired by the Middle Ages of Europe, or by devotion to elements of that period, which have been expressed in areas such as architecture, literature, music, art, philosophy, scholarship, and various vehicles of popular culture.
System of belief and practice inspired by the Middle Ages of Europe, or by devotion to elements of that period, which have been expressed in areas such as architecture, literature, music, art, philosophy, scholarship, and various vehicles of popular culture.
The name "Romanticism" itself was derived from the medieval genre chivalric romance.