Chrétien de Troyes in Prose: the Burgundian Erec and Cligés

First English translations of later adaptions of Chrétien's romances: a vital source for the development of Arthurian romance.

In the middle of the fifteenth century two anonymous writers "translated" into prose Chrétien de Troyes's first verse romances, Erec and Cligés (dating from the twelfth century), for the circle of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. For a long time unfairly dismissed as trite and slavish renderings of Chrétien's masterful narratives, the prose Erec and Cligés actually...