Since their composition during the middle to late twelfth century, Chretien's tales of Arthur and his chivalrous knights have fascinated generation upon generation of storytellers and their audiences, as well as literary critics and historians. Originally thought to have sprung from the newly civilized and thoroughly christianized courts of Marie of Champagne, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, eighteenth century literary historians suggested that the legends behind the tales may have originated in the lost mythologies of Celtic Ireland and Wales. The following thesis examines the evolution of the theory of celtic origins of Chretien's Romans de la Table Ronde.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.56929 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Lotz, Kelye L. |
| Contributors | Stefano, G. Di (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Département de langue et littérature françaises.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001325822, proquestno: AAIMM87653, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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