Artist at Work: Narrative Technique in Chretien de Troyes Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 78, part 4)

French author Chretien de Troyes is now firmly estabished as the most important vernacular writer of the 12th—century renaissance. Chretien, a native of Troyes in Champagne, was patronized by two powerful nobles & was thus well placed to compose the courtly lit. that characterized his time. His works include the earliest known Arthurian romance; the earliest & most sustained commentary on the Legend of Tristan & Iseut; the earliest known version of the story of Lancelot & Guinevere; & the e...