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Perceforest
Full title
Le Roman de Perceforest
Author(s)
Anonymous
Language
Old French (verse), Middle French (prose)
Date
Around 1340
First printed edition
La Tres Elegante Delicieux Melliflue et Tres Plaisante Hystoire du Tres Noble Roy Perceforest (1528)
Sources
Historia Regum Britanniae, Vulgate Cycle, others
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 (over one million words long) work in eight volumes 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.[1]Perceforest forms a late addition to the collection of narratives with loose connections both to the Arthurian Romance and the feats of Alexander the Great.
^Nigel Bryant (translator), Perceforest: The Prehistory of King Arthur's Britain, Cambridge and Rochester: D.S. Brewer (Arthurian studies, 77), 2011, xxiii.
Perceforest or Le Roman de Perceforest is an anonymous prose chivalric romance, written in French probably around 1340 with lyrical interludes of poetry...
earliest known version of the tale is found in the French narrative Perceforest, written between 1330 and 1344. Another was the Catalan poem Frayre de...
Lake, or the "chief Lady of the Lake" in the case of Malory's Nimue. In Perceforest, the ancestry of both Merlin and the Lady of the Lake is descended from...
Arthour and of Merlin 13th Middle English Palamedes 13th Old French Perceforest 14th Middle French Perceval Continuations 13th Old French Perlesvaus...
the otherwise obscure Elaine. In the 14th-century French prose romance Perceforest, a lengthy romance prequel to the Arthurian legend, the figures of the...
death. His symbolic namesake, Lyonnel, appears in the quasi-prequel Perceforest. There, he is an ancestor of both Lancelot and Guinevere as well as Tristan...
known MS) 'Michael' – Kildare Poems (MS of about this date) c. 1330–40 Perceforest 1330–43 Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita – The Book of Good Love (El Libro...
French author Revelations of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich Le Roman de Perceforest Roman de la Rose, Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun Sadko, anonymous...
of the Round Table in the later works continuing Chrétien's story. In Perceforest, the different daughters of the ancient knight Lyonnel and the fairy...
him to abandon Christianity and to marry his sister, Queen Jandree. In Perceforest, the different daughters of Lyonnel of Glat (the greatest knight of the...
ancient-times appearance of a Morgan character can be found in the much later Perceforest (1330s), within the fourth book which is set in Britain during Julius...
forerunner of the Round Table appears in Perceforest, where Arthur's distant ancestor, the eponymous King Perceforest, establishes the elite Order of the Franc...
fountain. In medieval literature, Malabron (chanson de Gaufrey) and Zéphir (Perceforest) change into horses. Paul Sébillot reports popular beliefs about several...
romance tradition." Romances of Chrétien de Troyes Queste del Saint Graal Perceforest The Knight in the Panther's Skin Valentine and Orson King Horn The Squire...
the event as the Chateau des Pucelles. The earlier chivalric romance Perceforest describes a tournament at this "Castle of Maidens", the Chastel aux Pucelles...
before leaving to resume his quest. In the anonymous French prose romance Perceforest, a massive quasi-prequel to the Arthurian legend written c. 1330, the...
Peredur, son of Efrawg Tavola Rottonda, anonymous [citation needed] Perceforest, anonymous La Faula by Guillem de Torroella O Presbus Ippotes (Ὁ Πρέσβυς...
"Post-Vulgate Cycle" – another prose reworking of the Lancelot and Grail stories Perceforest Gui de Warewic (1232–1242) Roman de la Rose ("Romance of the Rose") –...
passage from the novel Perceforest proves that hippomancy was demonized in the Middle Ages: to find out the date of Perceforest's return, Sarra launches...
Charles Martel that is now in the Bibliothèque royale, Brussels, and a Perceforest and a Renaud de Montauban (both in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris)...
Quatre fils Aymon (or Renaud de Montauban), Fierabras, Ogier le Danois, Perceforest and Galien le Réthoré. From 1540 on however, the genre was dominated...
any single candidate. The source for the basic story is the Roman de Perceforest, an extensive prose romance that has come down to us in four manuscripts...
Boccaccio (works) Petrarch (Africa, 1343) Geoffrey Chaucer (born 1343) Perceforest, completed 1344 It was around this decade that medieval cannon began...
(cinematography), DNEG (visual effects) Maleficent: Mistress of Evil United States Perceforest's England Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton,...
Roman de la Rose (Legenda, 2010) Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest (D.S. Brewer, 2007) Madness in Medieval French Literature (Oxford University...