In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail.Cline's translation, faithful to the highly synthetic, deliberately ornate nature of medieval French, follows Perceval from his home in Wales, through his rich and raucous adventures as a member of the fraternity of knights, to his climactic meeting with the Fisher King. Paralyzed by his first glimpse of the Grail, Perceval fails to save the ailing king. Distraught, the knight begins a new quest for the Grail, a journey on the road of penitence and faith. Perceval's venture, the true test of his knighthood, ends without conclusion; the death of author Chrétien de Troyes left unsaid and undetermined the success of Perceval's quest.

Perceval, Or, the Story of the Grail (English and Old French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Chretien, de Troyes

Cline, Ruth Harwood

History & Criticism

Pergamon Pr

This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remarkably subtle work often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes. The creator of the Arthurian romance as a genre, Chrétien is revealed in this work as a witty, versatile writer who mastered both the soaring flight of emotion and the devastating aside and was as skillful a debater of the finer points of love as he was a describer of battles.

Yvain: Or, the Knight With the Lion (English and Old French Edition)

Univ of Georgia Pr

An English verse translation of the Arthurian Cligès which, written in c.1176, describes the marriage and betrayal of the hero's parents followed by Cligès' quest to find true love with Fenice. The introduction examines the setting of the poem, in Britain, France and Byzantium, and places it within the context of the 12th-century conflict between England and France.

Cliges by Chretien de Troyes

University of Georgia Press

Tiron was a reformed Benedictine congregation founded ca. 1109 by Bernard of Abbeville. Though little known to medieval and religious historians, this in-depth study shows how it expanded from obscurity in the forests of the Perche to become an international congregation with headquarters in Chartres and Paris and abbeys and priories in France and the British Isles. The congregation become noted for building, crafts, education, and horse-breeding. Tiron preceded the Cistercians in Britain and traded in rising towns, and by 1147 it had a centrally-controlled network of riverine and coastal properties connecting its production hubs with towns and ports.

The Congregation of Tiron: Monastic Contributions to Trade and Communication in Twelfth-Century France and Britain (Spirituality and Monasticism, East and West)

History

Europe

Arc Humanities Press

Church at the Crossroads: A History of St. Albans Parish, Washington, DC, 1854-2004

Posterity Press

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