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Cligès (also
Cligés) is a poem by the
medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes,
dating from
around 1176. It is the
second of his five
Arthurian romances;...
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mittelhochdeutschen Cligès",
Zeitschrift für
deutsches Altertum 32 (1888) 123ff. A. Vizkelety, "Neue
Fragmente des
mittelhochdeutschen Cligès", Zeitschrift...
- In
another of Chrétien's romances,
Cligés,
Perceval is a "renowned v****al" who is
defeated by the
knight Cligés in a tournament. He then
becomes the...
- eight-syllable couplets. Four of
these are complete: Erec and
Enide (c. 1170);
Cligès (c. 1176); Yvain, the
Knight of the Lion; and Lancelot, the
Knight of the...
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Cligès, a
romance that is anti-Tristan with a
happy ending. Some
scholars speculate his
Tristan was ill-received,
prompting Chrétien to
write Cligès—a...
- Younger,
Galahad and
Perceval in Corbenic.
Cligès is the
title hero of Chrétien de Troyes'
French poem
Cligès (and its
foreign versions). There, he is an...
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wrote five
Arthurian romances between c. 1170 and 1190. Erec and
Enide and
Cligès are
tales of
courtly love with Arthur's
court as
their backdrop, demonstrating...
- 12th Old
Norman Tristan Chrétien de
Troyes 12th Old
French Erec and Enide,
Cligès, Lancelot, the
Knight of the Cart, Yvain, the
Knight of the Lion, Perceval...
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Lancelot reappears in Chrétien's
Cligès, in
which he
takes a more
important role as one of the
knights that
Cligès must
overcome in his quest. It is...
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miniatures depict famous lovers from literature,
including Tristan and Isolde,
Cliges and Fenice,
Pyramus and
Thisbe and
Paris and Helen. The work presumably...
