![]() ![]() Chrétien is regarded as the inventor of the genre of courtly romance. King Arthur and his knights first assembled at Camelot. It was in his Lancelot (the first romance in which Lancelot is the central character) that Chrétien's first major work Eric andĮnide is considered the first Arthurian romance. His stories introduced both Lancelot and Perceval into the mythology of Arthurian legend. 1Ĭhrétien was the first to write episodic verse romances about chivalrous heroes of the Arthurian round-table, and their heroic deeds, rather than a story of King Arthur Guenevere, Tristan and Isolde, and Perceval, using materials he borrowed from Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace. His stories were about Arthurian figures such as Sir Lancelot and Greatest writer of medieval romance: stories written in the vernacular rather than in Latin. He poet Chrétien de Troyes ( died no earlier than 1185) was probably the Above: Sir Percival and two other knights with the Holy Grail, 1286. ![]()
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