Douglas Kelly

Sens and Conjointure in the Chevalier de la Charrette of Chrétien de Troyes

Glyn S. Burgess

First English translation of an important twelfth-century romance, giving an account of the Trojan war and its consequences.

The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure - a Translation

The supplement to the 1976 original bibliography reflects the expanding scope of modern Chrétien studies, including items from around the world, with the assistance of an international team of scholars.

An Analytic Bibliography: Supplement I

Chrétien de Troyes

A reference to Macrobius by Chretien de Troyes links his own writing and, by implication, medieval writing in general, to the larger late antique and medieval Latin conception of rewriting as original imitation.

Description, Rewriting, and Authorship from Macrobius to Medieval Romance

The Conspiracy of Allusion

Guillaume de Machaut was celebrated in the later Middle Ages as a supreme poet and composer, and accordingly, his poetry was recommended as a model for aspiring poets. In his 'Voir dit, toute belle', a young, aspiring poet, convinces the Machaut figure to mentor her. This volume examines 'Toute belle' as she masters Machaut's dual arts of poetry and love, focusing on her successful apprenticeship in these arts; it also provides a thorough review of Machaut's art of love and art of poetry in his dits and lyricsm, and the previous scholarship on these topics. It goes on to treat Machaut's legacy among poets who, like 'Toute belle', adapted his poetic craft in new and original ways. A concluding analysis of melodie identifies the synaesthetic pleasure that late medieval poets, including Machaut, offer their readers.

Truth, Fiction and Poetic Craft

Machaut and the Medieval Apprenticeship Tradition

Douglas Kelly provides a comprehensive and historically valid analysis of the art of medieval French romance as the romancers themselves describe it. He focuses on well-known writers, such as Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France, and also draws on a wide range of other sources—prose romances, non-Arthurian romances, thirteenth-century verse romances, and variant versions from the later Middle Ages. Kelly is the first scholar to present the “art” of medieval romance to a modern audience through the interventions and comments of medieval writers themselves. The book begins by examining the difficulties scholars perceive in medieval literature: problems such as source and intertextuality, structure in its manifold modern meanings, and character psychology and individuality. These issues frame Kelly’s identification and discussion of all the known authorial interventions on the art and craft of romance. Kelly’s careful reconstruction of the “art” of romance, based on the records left by the romancers themselves, will be an invaluable resource and guide for all medievalists.

The Art of Medieval French Romance

Peter Haidu

A biography of the British boy, captured by raiding Irish warriors at age sixteen, who performed miracles, ended the power of the Druid priests over the Irish people, and converted the Irish kings and their people to Christianity.

Essays in Medieval Poetics

The Craft of Fiction

Norris J. Lacy

Keith Busby

The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes

A Symposium

The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes

Medieval Imagination examines the poetry of courtly love with unprecedented thoroughness. Douglas Kelly offers detailed analyses of numerous works within a historical, conceptual, and artistic framework to establish the underlying concept of Imagination in courtly poetry. He capitalizes the term to underscore its medieval sense: the poet's invention of significant images to represent a certain conception of truth. Imagination, thus, in its metaphorical sense of providing an idea with a suitable representation in an image, permitted an allegory of love in romance and dream vision from the twelfth century on. The techniques employed in Imagination--allegory, personification, metonymy, synecdoche--are analyzed in detail as amplification. In addition to his complete coverage of the better-known poets like Guillaume de Lorris, Machaut, and Froissart, Kelly examines the work of such rarely treated writers as René d'Anjou and Oton de Grandson, as well as the Echecs amoureux and related medieval Latin writings. The concluding chapters including Charles d'Orléans, Chartier, and Christine de Pisan. The later chapters are a rare boon to French scholars in providing a survey of Middle French courtly literature, a little-explored area of scholarship. Kelly's documentation is a fresh and useful contribution to the interpretation of this too-often neglected period.The flower of medieval French culture, the poetry of courtly love, is examined with an unprecedented thoroughness in this work. Douglas Kelly offers detailed analyses of numerous works within a historical, conceptual, and artistic framework.

Rhetoric and the Poetry of Courtly Love

Medieval Imagination

Medieval Studies in Honor of Douglas Kelly

Conjunctures

Provides bibliographical references on the medieval author and his works.

An Analytic Bibliography. Supplement I

Bruce Bartlett

R. J. Rushdoony

Greg L. Bahnsen

John Sparks

James B. Jordan

Simon Kistemaker

Tommy W. Rogers

Norman Shepherd

The belief that modern Israel fulfills biblical prophecy is a theological aberration. Traditional postmillennialists, amillen-nialists, and premillennialists have never believed that national or geographical Israel is relevant this side of the rapture.

Symposium on the Millennium (JCR Vol. 3 No. 2)

The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes: Chrétien et ses contemporains

Christine de Pizan's lifelong quest for certainty.

A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos

Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion

Romance was one of the major genres of the European Middle Ages. Emerging in the twelfth-century from both oral and written traditions, medieval romance evolved in verse and prose until by the sixteenth century the recognizable form of the classic novel was starting to appear. In Medieval French Romance, Douglas Kelly provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the many branches and subgenres of romance. He traces the evolution and adaptation of lays, chronicles, epic, chansons de geste, allegory, and other prose and verse forms, describes the elements that characterized each of these genres, and explains their relationship to and influence on romance. Chretien de Troyes, the most celebrated of the romance writers, asserted in the second half of the twelfth century that a true romance was distinguished from mere storytelling by la molt bele conjointure - the beautiful combination of elements, which made a story meaningful and entertaining for its audience. Certain stories and heroes were favorite themes in medieval romance, such as the Arthurian cycle, including Lancelot, Perceval, and the other knights of the Round Table; the Grail quest; Tristan and IseuDouglas Kelly also introduces the reader to the literary and cultural context in which romances were commissioned, written, and read. He shows how the writing was influenced by both the intended audience and the patron or patroness - for there were many noble ladies who patronized and commissioned romance writers. He explains why, for serious subjects, prose was considered more "truthful" than verse. In a section that will be particularly useful to serious students of medieval literature yet also fascinating to the general reader, Professor Kelly explores such romance topics as the transmission and adaptation of texts, philology and editing of manuscripts, style, prosody, genres, and social and moral ideals. A unique and extremely valuable feature of the book is the detailed chronology for each of the texts, including variant versions, adaptations, and interpolations. The book also includes a glossary of special terms and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources. For students, scholars, and the general reader alike, Medieval French Romance is an indispensable guide to understanding medieval romance as la molt bele conjointure.

Douglas Kelly

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