Chrétien de Troyes
12th century French poet and trouvère · France · Writers · Lived 1135 to 1181 · aged 46
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Something wrong?He gave the world Lancelot, turned the Holy Grail into legend, and made Arthur's court the central stage of medieval imagination - all before anyone thought to call it fantasy.
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Our books have informed us that the pre-eminence in chivalry and learning once belonged to Greece.
He was one of the first explorers of the human heart, and is therefore rightly to be numbered among the fathers of the novel of sentiment.
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A French poet working sometime between 1160 and 1191, Chrétien wrote chivalric romances that seized on Arthurian material - Gawain, Perceval, the Grail - and shaped them into the forms that would define the genre for centuries. His major works included Erec and Enide, Lancelot, Perceval, and Yvain, each a narrative architecture so deliberate that scholars see in Yvain an early sketch of what the novel would become. He didn't invent Arthur, but he invented what Arthur meant: the code, the quest, the troubled knight. Medieval literature holds few names with a longer reach.
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