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The Romance Of Tristan And Iseult

By Joseph Bédier

2020-01-31 01:57:08

A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish princess ... Read more
A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish princess who meet by deception, fall in love by magic, and pursue that love in defiance of heavenly and earthly law has inspired artists from Matthew Arnold to Richard Wagner. But nowhere has it been retold with greater eloquence and dignity than in Joseph Bédier’s edition, which weaves several medieval sources into a seamless whole, elegantly translated by Hilaire Belloc Less

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File size83.26 KB
Print pages116
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date1994-05-31
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781598186161
Joseph Bédier (28 January 1864 – 29 August 1938) was a French writer and scholar and historian of medieval France. Bédier was born in Paris, France to Adolphe Bédier, a lawyer of Breton origin, a...

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