Refashioning combat in Chrétien’s Cligés for the Burgundian court
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes / Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies. varia
2015 – 2, n° 30 - Author: Grimbert (Joan Tasker)
- Abstract: In 1455 an anonymous prose writer adapted Chrétien de Troyes’ Cligés (1176). Seeking no doubt to appeal to his Burgundian contemporaries steeped in war culture, he made the combat scenes much more vivid and detailed while condensing the love intrigue. This article compares the verse and prose accounts of Cligés’s performance at two moments in his evolution, as a novice in the war waged by the duke of Saxony and as a more experienced knight in a tournament organized by King Arthur.
- Pages: 353 to 372
- Journal: Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- EAN: 9782812460982
- ISBN: 978-2-8124-6098-2
- ISSN: 2273-0893
- DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-6098-2.p.0353
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 04-04-2016
- Periodicity: Biannual
- Language: French