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Arthurian Romances
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Chretien de Troyes
Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of the Cart is the first telling of the adulterous relationship between Lancelot and Arthur's Queen Guinevere, and in The Knight with the Lion Yvain ...
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Arthurian Romances
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Chretien de Troyes was a French poet in the late 12th century whose work represents some of the best examples of Arthurian legend from medieval times. Contained in this volume are the four complete Arthurian romances that have survived. The first of these stories is that of "Erec and Enide," which recounts the story of Erec, one of King Arthur's ...
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Rashi's Daughter, Secret Scholar
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Maggie Anton
Set in 11th-century Troyes, France, "Rashi's Daughter" tells the story of Joheved, eldest daughter of Salomon ben Isaac, who is known as Rashi - one of the great medieval Jewish Bible commentators. At a time when women traditionally were barred from studying Jewish texts, Rashi secretly teaches first Joheved, then her sister Miriam. By day, ...
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Rashi: A Portrait
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Elie Wiesel, Catherine Temerson (Translator)
From the winner of a Nobel Peace Prize comes a magical book that introduces readers to the wisdom of Rashi, the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.
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The creation of the first Arthurian romance; a quest.
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Claude Luttrell
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The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France
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Helen Harden Chenut
The years of the Third Republic (1870-1940) in France were ones of intense social and economic transformation as workers struggled to defend their rights in the face of growing industrial capitalism. In The Fabric of Gender Helen Chenut paints a vivid picture of working life during these years by following four generations of laboring women and ...
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Rashi: The Man and His World
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Esra Shereshevsky
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The Arthurian Romances of Chretien de Troyes: Once and Future Fictions
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Donald Maddox
Chretien de Troyes was one of the most important medieval writers of Arthurian narrative. A key figure in reshaping the 'once and future fictions' of Arthurian story, he was instrumental in the late twelfth-century shift from written and oral legendary traditions to a highly sophisticated literary cultivation of the Old French verse romance. While ...
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The Allegory of Adventure: Reading Chretien's "Erec & Yvain"
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Tom Artin
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The Romances of Chretien de Troyes
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Mr. Joseph J Duggan
Twelfth-century French poet Chretien de Troyes was one of the most influential figures in Western literature, for his romantic poems on the legend of King Arthur gave rise to a tradition of storytelling that continues to this day. This important and fascinating book is a study of all of Chretien's work. Joseph J. Duggan begins with an introduction ...
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Chretien de Troyes: Erec Et Enide
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Glyn S Burgess
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Chretien de Troyes, the Man and His Work
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Jean Frappier
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The Complete Romances of Chritien de Troyes
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Chretien de Troyes, David Staines (Translator)
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Elvina's Mirror
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Sylvie Weil
This title presents the tale of a Rashi's granddaughter, a young girl who defies her community to help a friend in need. In this sequel to "My Guardian Angel", Sylvie Weil continues the story of Elvina, the 14-year-old granddaughter of Rashi, the famous 11th-century French Bible and Talmud commentator. It is the spring of 1097 in the town of ...
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Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France: Troyes and Reims, 1786-1790
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Lynn Avery Hunt
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Building Troyes Cathedral: The Late Gothic Campaigns
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Stephen Murray
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Rashi
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Maurice Liber
As of old many cities in Greece asserted that they were the birthplace of Homer, the national poet, so a number of cities disputed for the honor of being the birthplace of Rashi, or of having been his residence, or the scene of his death. Worms claimed him as one of its rabbis, Lunel, thanks to a confusion of names, has passed as his birthplace, ...
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The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes
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Norris J. Lacy, Douglas Kelly, Keith Busby
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Chretien de Troyes Revisited
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Karl D. Uitti, Michelle A. Freeman
In Chretien de Troyes Revisited, author Karl D. Uitti at last places Chretien in context, offering a strong sense of the author's identity and the milieu in which he lived and wrote. Uitti's 30 years of work on the subject pay handsome dividends for the reader, as we view Chretien - likely for the first timeoutside of a vacuum. Uitti locates ...
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Subarctic Saga
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Walter Andrew Kenyon
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Chretien de Troyes - Romancier Discutable
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Per Nykrog
M. Nykrog, medieviste eminent, nous fait beneficier de son experience incomparable, en retracant l'histoire de la critique des romans de Chretien de Troyes: ce qu'on en sait surement - et c'est peu de chose - et ce qu'on en a dit - une bibliotheque. M. Nykrog en conclut que les textes de Chretien ont besoin d'une "cure de simplicite." Voici ...
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Chrétien studies: problems of form and meaning in Erec, Yvain, Cligés and the Charrete
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Zara Patricia Zaddy
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La Bibliotheque Bleue Au Dix-Huitieme Siecle: Une Tradition Editoriale
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Lise Andries
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Chra(c)Tien de Troyes: An Analytic Bibliography
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Douglas Kelly
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The Romances of Chretien de Troyes: A Symposium
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Douglas Kelly (Editor)
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