Le passé recomposé des lais bretons en moyen-anglais : Le Lay le Freine, Sir Orfeo, Sir Degaré, Sir Launfal et The Franklin’s Tale

The prologues opening several Middle English Breton lays display both proximity and distance with the Breton lai tradition. The most striking difference lies in the absence of an argument put forward in the prologues of the French poems, which justifies their undertaking – the necessity to perpetuat...

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Main Author: Mireille Séguy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2014-04-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/207
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