A report on Valentine and Orson
Romance which has been attached to the Carolingian cycle.
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Chivalric romance
0 linksType of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
While he never eliminates the mother-in-law, many romances such as Valentine and Orson have later variants that change from the mother-in-law to the courtier, whereas a more recent version never goes back.
Brazen head
0 linksLegendary automaton in the early modern period whose ownership was ascribed to late medieval scholars, such as Roger Bacon, who had developed a reputation as wizards.
Legendary automaton in the early modern period whose ownership was ascribed to late medieval scholars, such as Roger Bacon, who had developed a reputation as wizards.
A brazen head also appears in the surviving accounts of the Carolingian Valentine and Nameless, where it reveals the pair's royal origin in a necromancer's lair in Clarimond Castle; despite the age of the base story, however, the earliest surviving copies date to the 15th century.
Ferragut
0 linksCharacter—a Saracen paladin, sometimes depicted as a giant—in texts dealing with the Matter of France, including the Historia Caroli Magni, and Italian epics, such as Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.
Character—a Saracen paladin, sometimes depicted as a giant—in texts dealing with the Matter of France, including the Historia Caroli Magni, and Italian epics, such as Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.
Ferragus is also the name of a completely different Saracen giant from Portugal in the medieval romance Valentine and Orson.
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
0 linksAmerican artist and illustrator.
American artist and illustrator.
She won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Special Award for Valentine and Orson in 1990.
Richard Hathwaye
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English dramatist.
2) Valentine and Orson, with Anthony Munday, July 1598. Not printed.