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Romance (genre)
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The list Romance (genre) includes
Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Le Morte d'Arthur, Knight-errant, La Cleopatra (poem) and Parzival.
The list consists of 35 members
and 10 sublists.
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Matter of Britain
body of Medieval literature associated with Great Britain and Brittany, and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur
Overview: The Matter of Britain (French: matière de Bretagne; Welsh: Mater Prydain; Cornish: Mater Brythain; Breton: Afer Breizh-Veur) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great ...
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Knight-errant
chivalric literature stock character
Overview: A knight-errant (or knight errant) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature. The adjective errant (meaning "wandering, roving") indicates how the knight-errant would wander the land in search ... 0
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Chivalric romance
type of prose and verse narrative
Overview: As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marv ... 0
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance
Overview: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse. The author is unknown; the title was given centuries later. It is one of the best-known A ... 0
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Le Morte d'Arthur
1485 reworking of existing tales about King Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Overview: Le Morte d'Arthur (originally written as le morte Darthur; Anglo-Norman French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary ... 0
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Benoît de Sainte-Maure
12th-century French poetOverview: Benoît de Sainte-Maure (died 1173) was a 12th-century French poet, most probably from Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine near Tours, France. The Plantagenets' administrative center was located in Chinon, west of ...Date of death: 1173Nationality: FrenchOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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La Cleopatra (poem)
book by Girolamo Graziani
Overview: La Cleopatra is an epic poem in 13 songs by Girolamo Graziani (1604–1674). The work was very successful at the time and was praised by many famous writers, including Fulvio Testi. 0
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Weisskunig
literary work
Overview: Der Weisskunig or The White King is a chivalric novel and thinly disguised biography of the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I, (1486–1519) written in German by Maximilian and his secretary between 1505 ... 0
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La Tavola Ritonda
medieval Arthurian chivalric romance composed in TuscanOverview: La Tavola Ritonda (The Round Table) is a 15th-century Italian Arthurian romance written in the medieval Tuscan language. It is preserved in a 1446 manuscript at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in F ... 0
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The Young Lion
book by Blanche d'Alpuget
Overview: The Young Lion is a 2013 historical novel by Blanche d'Alpuget. It is set in the 12th century and is the first in a future quartet about the Plantagenet dynasty which reigned in the Middle Ages. The book ... 0
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Erec (poem)
Arthurian romance by Hartmann von Aue
Overview: Erec (also Erek, Ereck) is a Middle High German poem written in rhyming couplets by Hartmann von Aue. It is thought to be the earliest of Hartmann's narrative works and dates from around 1185. An adaptation ... 0
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Sir Degrevant
Middle English romance from 15th centuryOverview: Sir Degrevant is a Middle English romance from the early fifteenth century. Generally classified as a "composite romance," that is, a romance that does not fit easily into the standard classification of ... 0
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Il Guerrin Meschino
novel by Andrea da Barberino
Overview: Il Guerrin Meschino ("Wretched Guerrin") is an Italian prose chivalric romance with some elements of verisimilitude, written by the Italian cantastorie, systematizer and translator from French Andrea da ... 0
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Pandosto
PandostoOverview: Pandosto: The Triumph of Time is a prose romance written by the English author Robert Greene, first published in 1588. A later edition of 1607 was re-titled Dorastus and Fawnia. Popular during the time ... 0
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The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
15th-century English poem
Overview: The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (The Weddynge of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell) is a 15th-century English poem, one of several versions of the "loathly lady" story popular during the Middle Ages ... 0
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Romance of Horn
12th-century Anglo-Norman romanceOverview: Romance of Horn is an Anglo-Norman literature romans d'aventure ("adventure story") tale written around 1170 by an author apparently named "Thomas". The story became the basis for one of the earliest Middle ... 0
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Bovo-Bukh
Book by Elia Levita
Overview: The Bovo-Bukh ("Bovo Bukh," Yiddish: בָּבָא-בּוּך, בּאָבאָ-בּוּך German transliteration: Baba Buch), also known as Buovo d'Antona (בָּבָא דְאַנְטוֹנָא), is a Yiddish chivalric romance written ... 0
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Jerusalem Delivered
Epic poem by Torquato Tasso supposedly about the First Crusade
Overview: Jerusalem Delivered, also known as The Liberation of Jerusalem (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata lit. 'The freed Jerusalem'), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in ... 0
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Orlando Innamorato
Book by Matteo Maria Boiardo
Overview: Orlando Innamorato (known in English as "Orlando in Love"; in Italian titled "Orlando innamorato" as the "I" is never capitalized) is an epic poem written by the Italian Renaissance author Matteo Maria ... 0
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Tirant lo Blanch
Book by Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba (1490)
Overview: Tirant lo Blanch (modern spelling: Tirant lo Blanc), in English Tirant the White, is a chivalric romance written by the Valencian knight Joanot Martorell, finished posthumously by his friend Martí Joan ... 0
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