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Title: Theme: Love


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Theme Love Adventure2 Developments
  • Anglo-Norman interest in matière de Bretagne
    HRB Wace EleanorHenry (family tree), also
    Marie de France (Lais based on Breton songs,
    Lanval)
  • Courtliness courtly love

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Courtliness and Love
  • Historical developments (agricultural
    improvements, feudal piramid) gtgt courtly culture
    (castles (ppt), prosperity leisure time rules
    of conduct (Bumke, Elias)
  • Trobadors (langue doc) fin amors for the
    gentleman-poet and his circle
  • Aquitaine gtgt Eleanor steeped in courtly love,
    moves North (langue doïl)
  • Courtly culture spreads in courts under her
    influence, troubadour lyrics and new genre of
    Arthurian romance!

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Champagne
  • Marie, Eleanors daughter, holds court in Troyes
  • Andreas Capellanus, De Amore libri tres (ca.
    1185) gtgt description of amourous matters,
    discussions in Cour damour gtgt handout
  • Loves sweet sorrows dilemmas
  • New form of conduct, role models for men and
    women (cf. HRB)

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Chrétien de Troyes
  • Court cleric in Maries service, perhaps also of
    the English king
  • No biographical information, except his own
    prologues, giving name, patron and sources
  • Also matière, san, conjointure gtgt poetical
    method

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Chrétiens works
  • Cligés prologue
  • Erec Enide Love and knighthood, social
    functions of the married man
  • Cligés love triangle (anti Tristan)
  • Yvain Knighthood and Love
  • Lancelot
  • Conte du Graal ou Perceval gtgt next week

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  • Parijs BN 122

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Lancelot
  • Prologue (san, matière come from Marie Chrétien
    adds craftsmanship, conjointure)
  • Story Méléagant, Keu, don, rescue by Gauvain and
    anonymous knight, cart, sword bridge, fight I,
    harsh queen, misunderstandings, reconciliation,
    rendez-vous in barred room, blood on the sheets,
    judicial duel (fight II), return to court,
    Lancelots captivity, tournament, deliverance and
    happy end (Godefroi de Leigni)
  • Adultery condoned? Other world

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Lanzelet
  • Mystification name oral tales about the queens
    lover
  • Example Ulrich von Zatzikhovens Lanzelet gtgt
    strange youth, mermaids, ladies man (text
    connected to Richard Lionheart, hostages)
  • Introduction greatest lover leads to new texts

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Prose Lancelot
  • Around 1200 verse-prose debate
  • True Story about Arthur, Lancelot and the Grail
    Vulgate Cycle, based upon non-cyclic Lancelot
    and prose version Chrétiens text
  • Trilogy and fivefold cycle (diagram)
  • Text read in tr. Lacy

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Questions
  • E. Do Lancelot and the queen understand each
    other?
  • F. Why did Lancelot perform his brave deeds?
    Dante text What is the function of
    Galehaut/Galeotto?
  • Is it a tragedy?
  • Whose fault is it anyway?
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