Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. The poem tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice. Cligès has come...
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Knights of the Round Table (section Cligès)
Younger, Galahad and Perceval in Corbenic. Cligès is the title hero of Chrétien de Troyes' French poem Cligès (and its foreign versions). There, he is an...
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Cligès, a romance that is anti-Tristan with a happy ending. Some scholars speculate his Tristan was ill-received, prompting Chrétien to write Cligès—a...
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mittelhochdeutschen Cligès", Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 32 (1888) 123ff. A. Vizkelety, "Neue Fragmente des mittelhochdeutschen Cligès", Zeitschrift...
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eight-syllable couplets. Four of these are complete: Erec and Enide (c. 1170); Cligès (c. 1176); Yvain, the Knight of the Lion; and Lancelot, the Knight of the...
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Knights of the Round Table Bagdemagus Bedivere Bors the Younger Brunor Cligès Caradoc Dagonet Daniel Dinadan Galahad Galehaut Geraint Griflet Lamorak...
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Lancelot reappears in Chrétien's Cligès, in which he takes a more important role as one of the knights that Cligès must overcome in his quest. It is...
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wrote five Arthurian romances between c. 1170 and 1190. Erec and Enide and Cligès are tales of courtly love with Arthur's court as their backdrop, demonstrating...
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In another of Chrétien's romances, Cligés, Perceval is a "renowned vassal" who is defeated by the knight Cligés in a tournament. He then becomes the...
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Knights of the Round Table Bagdemagus Bedivere Bors the Younger Brunor Cligès Caradoc Dagonet Daniel Dinadan Galahad Galehaut Geraint Griflet Lamorak...
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after Gawain and Erec. Lancelot later briefly appears in Cligès, where he is defeated by Cligès in a joust. An abduction of the queen is one of the oldest...
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Knights of the Round Table Bagdemagus Bedivere Bors the Younger Brunor Cligès Caradoc Dagonet Daniel Dinadan Galahad Galehaut Geraint Griflet Lamorak...
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Knights of the Round Table Bagdemagus Bedivere Bors the Younger Brunor Cligès Caradoc Dagonet Daniel Dinadan Galahad Galehaut Geraint Griflet Lamorak...
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literature, most notably articulated in the prologue to Chrétien de Troyes's Cligès, composed ca. 1170. There, Chrétien explains that Greece was first the seat...
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and Iseult story) The poems of Chrétien de Troyes Erec and Enide c. 1170s Cligés c. 1170s Yvain, the Knight of the Lion c. 1180s Lancelot, the Knight of...
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12th Old Norman Tristan Chrétien de Troyes 12th Old French Erec and Enide, Cligès, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, Perceval...
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Knights of the Round Table Bagdemagus Bedivere Bors the Younger Brunor Cligès Caradoc Dagonet Daniel Dinadan Galahad Galehaut Geraint Griflet Lamorak...
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Knight of the Cart, Lancelot bears plain red arms as a disguise. The hero of Cligès competes in a jousting tournament with plain black, green, and red arms...
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