{"product_id":"9781607786245","title":"Four Arthurian Romances: Erec et Enide -- Cliges -- Yvain or, The Knight with the Lion -- Lancelot or, The Knight of the Cart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChretien de Troyes\u003c\/b\u003e was a French poet and trouvere who flourished in   the late 12th century. Little is known of his life, but he seems to have been   from Troyes, or at least intimately connected with it, and between 1160 and 1172   he served at the court of his patroness Marie of France, Countess of Champagne,   daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, perhaps as herald-at-arms (as Gaston Paris   speculated). His work on Arthurian subjects represents some of the best regarded   of medieval literature. Chretien de Troyes is generally considered as the first   identified major French Language novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChretien's works include five major poems in rhyming eight-syllable couplets.   Four of these are complete; \u003ci\u003eErec and Enide\u003c\/i\u003e (c. 1170); \u003ci\u003eCligès\u003c\/i\u003e (c.   1176), and \u003ci\u003eYvain, the Knight of the Lion\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLancelot, the Knight of   the Cart\u003c\/i\u003e, both written simultaneously between 1177 and 1181. Chretien's   final romance was \u003ci\u003ePerceval, the Story of the Grail\u003c\/i\u003e, written between 1181   and 1190, but left unfinished. It was composed for Philip, Count of Flanders, to   whom Chrétien was attached in his last years. He finished only 9,000 lines of   the work, but four successors of varying talents added 54,000 additional lines   in what are known as the Four Continuations. Similarly, the last thousand lines   of \u003ci\u003eLancelot\u003c\/i\u003e were written by Godefroi de Leigni, apparently by arrangement   with Chretien. In the case of \u003ci\u003ePerceval\u003c\/i\u003e, one continuer says the poet's   death prevented him from completing the work, in the case of \u003ci\u003eLancelot\u003c\/i\u003e, no   reason is given. This has not stopped speculation that Chretien, medieval   literature's greatest treater of matrimonial love, did not approve of   \u003ci\u003eLancelot'\u003c\/i\u003es adulterous subject.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e- Excerpted from \u003cem\u003eWikipedia, \u003c\/em\u003ethe free encyclopedia. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MobileReference","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151342649584,"sku":"9781607786245","price":0.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781607786245_p0.jpg?v=1763834213","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781607786245","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}