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chivalric romance
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type of prose and verse narrative
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- Commons category
- Chivalric romances
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- topic's main category
- Category:Romance (genre)
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Encyclopedic overview
Yvain fighting Gawain in order to regain the love of his lady Laudine. Medieval illumination from Chrétien de Troyes's romance, Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion
Prose genres
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chivalric romance” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.