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From Plato To Lancelot: A Preface To Chrtien De Troyes (Medieval Studies),Used
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Considered the most important figure in medieval French literature, Chrtien de Troyes is credited with inventing the modern novel. The roots of his influential Arthurian romance narratives remain the subject of investigation and great debate among medieval scholars. In From Plato to Lancelot, K. SaraJane Murray makes a highly original and profoundly significant contribution to the current scholarship by locating Chrtiens work at the intersection of two important traditions: one derived from GrecoRoman antiquity, the other from the Celtic world of the Atlantic seaboard. Drawing on a broad range of sources, from Platos Timaeus and Ovids Metamorphoses to the anonymous Lais translated in the twelfth century by Marie de France, Murray demonstrates that Chrtien and his contemporaries learned the importance of translation from the Mediterraneancentered classical tradition. She then turns to the Celtic world, examining how Irish monastic scholarship, as demonstrated by the Voyage of St. Brendan and Celtic saints lives, profoundly influenced the cultural identity of medieval Europe and paved the way for an interest in Celtic stories and legends. With breathtaking insight and lucid prose, Murray illustrates that Chrtiens singular genius lay in his ability to look to the future and to lay the foundations for a thoroughly new, and French, tradition of vernacular storytelling.
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