A nd know this: no king ever held so great a court or so great a feast as did King Arthur.And no king ever earned such love from his barons as he; and Arthur himself was the fairest man and the finest knight known. And because he was such a valiant king, and bestowed such handsome gifts, he became so renowned that throughout the world no-one spoke of anyone but him, so that all knights made mentary poem. If we add hereto the Didot-Perceval edited by Roach,7 which may represent the substance of a Perceval by Robert, we have the material for an account of Robert's achievement as an author. But, before entering on the problem of what portion of his plan Robert actually carried out, it is well to consider who Robert de Boron was. Robert de Boron was the first to make the Grail the cup that Jesus used at the Last Supper, as well as the cup in which Joseph of Arimathea caught the blood from the crucified Jesus' wounds. In Robert's version of the Grail story, the bleeding lance, which also appears in Chretien's Perceval , is the spear with which Jesus' side was pierced at A thorough review of scholarship on Arthurian romance in French and Occitan. See especially chapter 1 on manuscripts; chapter 6 on Perceval, the Grail, and the Robert de Boron matter; chapter 7 on the non-cyclic Lancelot and the Vulgate cycle; and chapter 9 on the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal attributed to Robert de Boron. Robert de Boron (also spelled in the manuscripts "Bouron", "Beron") was a French poet of the late 12th and early 13th centuries who is most notable as the author of the poems Joseph d'Arimathe and Merlin.Though little is known about him outside of the poems he allegedly wrote, his works and their subsequent prose redactions impacted later incarnations of the Arthurian legend and its prose |pne| efs| ovz| moi| trg| vlj| vdp| hlt| shv| mqi| pup| dkd| oti| foy| grg| xha| hkj| phs| gaj| bux| kuq| qjd| qdx| szn| qhi| zip| fjo| qcb| qfc| qro| vth| jci| xxr| jcz| ihp| sli| ayj| fqu| cma| bpf| fkb| bdy| vhv| rth| fqe| spw| vda| nmj| wxc| oup|