Etude De Marché Monster

Western Christendom, becomes a model of chivalry and conquers England. Written (or rather rewritten) in prose, these new versions mark a movement in taste away from myth and the Christian marvellous towards love and its casuistry, magical perils, monsters and fairies and a more direct representation of the palpable world. The roman d’aventure drew on narrative traditions of all kinds. In the thirteenth century, Joufroi de Poitiers revisits the court of Guillaume IX, while Adenet le Roi (d. c.1300)