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Erec et Enide (one of a series) Never mind Erec. This one’s about Enide. I came across a house called “Enid”, in Wales, and decided to re-read an old twelfth-century lay I hadn’t read since student days. Chrétien de Troyes wrote down his courtly stories because he was fed up of storytellers changing Leggi tutto

Have I ever told you that I have a HUGE obsession for Arthurian legends? Well, I'll tell you now :P Chretien de Troyes works are so witty, extremely modern and romantic! My favourite is -of course- Lancelot du lac ou le Chevalier de la Charrette... motivations? 1- This is the first novel EVER that has Leggi tutto

The Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes. Troyes is a famous French poet known for his Arthurian work. One of the reasons I combined this review is because some of his works are also in the Arthurian Legends collection above. Anyway. The edition I have contains the stories of Eric and Enide, Cli Leggi tutto

The British may have started the whole Arthurian movement, but the French really took it to the next level. French writers added a number of innovations to the legend we know and love today, including the character of Lancelot. Chrétien introduced the character in Erec and Enide , then added the whol Leggi tutto

I can't believe it's taken me so long to get round to reading this. I've had it on my reading list for ages -- before I knew it'd be a set text -- and I'm glad I finally got round to it. It isn't a novel, as such, of course, but a set of somewhat connected stories, the last one of which is unfinishe Leggi tutto