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11 janvier 2019
- handle: 10670/1.wkksfn
- isbn: 9781783743131
- eisbn: 9791036516641
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history hagiography English translation anthology Anglo-Norman literature medieval culture grammar and glosses letters homiletic LIT004130 Medieval & Renaissance Studies DSBSujets proches
Romans courtois Chivalric romances Medieval romances Romances, French Courtly romances French romances Chivalry--RomancesCiter ce document
Jane Bliss, « Romance », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.wkksfn
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Back into storyland giants have fled… The old hymn is about how knights were supposed to be virtuous as well as valiant. Medieval romances may (or not) have been ‘escape literature’, but nobody escaped from the habits of religion. Even outside the Grail romances, and the ‘pious romances’ in which the hero’s adventures are in some sense a penance or pilgrimage, knights would hear Mass before setting off on their exploits. Grace would be said at meals; one was expected to confess one’s sins reg...