Medieval French romances

Arthurian romance by Chrétien de Troyes

literary work by Chrétien de Troyes

romance of Chrétien de Troyes

romantic story from the Middle Ages (aristocratic version)

volume of medieval French works that are a major source of Arthurian legend

12th-century Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes

Cligès (also Cligés) is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. It is the second of his five Arthurian romances; Erec and Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. The poem tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice.

13th-century French epic poem

13th-century French Arthurian romance

13th-century romance, written in the Occitan language

French romance written by Benoît de Sainte-Maure; a medieval retelling of the theme of the Trojan war

12th-century French romance

legendary character, protagonist of the homonymous poem

medieval French epic poem

French romance composed around 1150

Perceforest or Le Roman de Perceforest is an anonymous prose chivalric romance, written in French probably around 1340 with lyrical interludes of poetry, that describes a fictional origin of Great Britain and provides an original genesis of the Arthurian world. The lengthy work in eight volumes (over one million words long) takes its inspiration from the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, Orosius and Bede, the Lancelot-Grail cycle, the Alexander Romance genre, Roman historians, medieval travellers, and oral tradition. Perceforest forms a late addition to the collection of narratives with loo

literary work by Alexandre de Paris

Perlesvaus, also called Li Hauz Livres du Graal (The High Book of the Grail), is an Old French Arthurian romance from the 13th century. It purports to be a continuation of Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished Perceval, the Story of the Grail, but contains striking differences from other versions as well as other Arthurian romances more generally.

early 13th century Arthurian literature

anonymous French romance composed between 1390 and 1425

work by Jean Renart

poem written by anonymous

literary and legendary figure from the Middle Ages

medieval romance attached to the Carolingian circle

Meliodas or Meliadus is a figure in Arthurian legend in the 12th-century Prose Tristan and subsequent accounts. In Thomas Malory's ''Le Morte d'Arthur'', he is the second king of Lyonesse, son of Felec of Cornwall and vassal of King Mark. Meliodas' first wife, Elizabeth, who bore the hero Tristan, was Mark's sister, and his second wife was a daughter or sister of Hoel of Brittany. He is the eponymous protagonist of the romance Meliadus. The Italian variant Tristano Riccardiano calls him Felix (Felissi).

13th-century French Arthurian romance written by William the Clerk