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progressivement à l'émergence des valeurs courtoises, jusqu'à en représenter l'une des plus parfaites manifestations. Les romans courtois - nés sous l'influence de la poésie des troubadours chantant la fin'amor - proposent une nouvelle vision des relations sociales, fondées sur le respect que le chevalier doit à son seigneur et à sa Dame (le«service d'amour»). Les premiers textes qui s'inscrivent dans le cycle arthurien - relatant les hauts faits du roi légendaire Arthur et de ses chevaliers - apparaissent

representations of human behaviour gravitated towards allegory, which was well established as a central device of Christian and moral writing by the time Guillaume de Digulleville wrote his three Pèlerinages (1330–58). But the emphasis on man in his relations not only with God but with other men also gave a new urgency to his place in the world. New genres sprang up to accommodate a new spirit of curiosity: the ‘bestiary’ (in which animals conveyed Christian truths and moral lessons), the miroir, which