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This 1998 study serves as a contribution to both reception history, examining the medieval response to Chrétien's poetry, and genre history, suveying the evolution of Arthurian verse romance in French. It describes the evolutionary changes taking place between Chrétien's Eric et Enide and Froissart's Meliador, the first and last examples of the genre, and is unique in placing Chrétien's work, not as the unequalled masterpieces of the whole of Arthurian literature, but as the starting point for the history of the genre, which can subsequently be traced over a period of two centuries in the French-speaking world. Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann's study was first published in German in 1985, but her radical argument that we need urgently to redraw the lines on the literary and linguistic map of medieval Britain and France is only now being made available in English.

Poetry --- Old French literature --- Thematology --- Arthur [King] --- Arthurian romances --- Epic poetry, French --- Cycle d'Arthur --- Poésie épique française --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Chrétien, --- Froissart, Jean, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poésie épique française --- Chrétien, --- French poetry --- History and criticism --- Criticism and interpretation --- Poetic works --- King Arthur [Fictitious character] --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Arthurian romances - History and criticism --- French poetry - To 1500 - History and criticism --- Chrétien, - de Troyes, - active 12th century - Criticism and interpretation --- Froissart, Jean, - 1338?-1410? - Poetic works --- Poetic works. --- Froyssart, Johan, --- Froissart, Jehan, --- Froissart, John, --- Frossard, Jean, --- Frossardus, Joannes, --- Froyssart, Jean, --- Chrestien de Troyes, --- Chrestien, --- Kretʹen, --- Kretjen, --- Kristian, --- Troyes, Chrétien de, --- Кретјен, --- Frossardus, Joannes --- Jean Froissart --- Jehan Frossardus --- Froissart, Jean --- Chrétien, - de Troyes, - active 12th century --- Froissart, Jean, - 1338?-1410?