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	The Breton Lays in Middle English - Thomas C. Rumble
		The Breton Lays in Middle English - Thomas C. Rumble
		Of the many literary forms of medieval times, few are more likely to appeal to the modern reader than the so-called Breton lay.
		Though all have been previously edited, they have never been brought together in to a single volume until now.
	wsupress.wayne.edu /literature/literature/rumbleblme.htm (166 words)

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		Thomas Chestre's Sir Launfal (circa 1400) is famous for having a variety of sources.
		Chestre is careful to show that knightly status depends on money and on the goodwill of women.
		Chestre presents knightly masculinity as a process rooted in and sustained by physical violence, rather than as a metaphysical state or as a form of national service.
	www.ualberta.ca /~englishd/guygray.htm (302 words)

	Sir Launfal: Introduction
		Thomas Chestre's Sir Launfal, written in the late fourteenth century, is preserved in only one early fifteenth-century manuscript: British Library MS Cotton Caligula A. ii.
		When Thomas Chestre composed his version of the narrative, he drew on three earlier texts, two of which survive.
		Bliss assumes that Chestre wrote for a peasant audience, but if we consider how and where the text itself might have been performed, read, or copied into a manuscript, we would likely establish a potentially wider and somewhat more varied audience, perhaps not peasant, but certainly mercantile.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/launint.htm (3256 words)

	Sir Launfal
		Because of the dialect in which both tales are recorded, it is thought that Thomas lived in the early fifteenth century in the vicinity of Chester, a city in the northwest of England in Cheshire.
		Thomas Chestre now is aware of these narratives' authority in saying what Arthur's court was like, and he apparently expects his own audience to know who these guys are.
		Thomas Chestre's version specifies the mechanisms by which the former are to be delivered, and makes the faerie's gift something much more like a typical feudal lord's gift-giving to his vassal.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng240/sir_launfal.htm (2382 words)

	The Regiment of Princes: Introduction
		In his 1968 book Thomas Hoccleve: A Study in Early Fifteenth-Century English Poetic and in his brief essay "Hoccleve's Supposed Friendship with Chaucer," Jerome Mitchell is so taken with the then current interest in literary convention that he regards the passages on the older poet as more convention than autobiography.
		The first of these, Thomas Wright's 1860 edition for the Roxburgh Club, is based on British Library MS Royal 17 D. vi, an extensively ornamented parchment manuscript written towards the middle of the fifteenth century, and containing not only the Regiment but also the last three parts of the five-part Series.
		For the fifth line, Furnivall reads: "At Chestre ynnë, right fast be the stronde." It is of course Furnivall, in one of his rather annoying orthographic interventions, who puts the dieresis over the final -e of "ynne," and the result is a regular, but also ungainly, iambic pentameter line.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/hoccint.htm (12693 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Medieval literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The liturgy itself was not in fixed form, and numerous competing missals set out individual conceptions of the order of the mass.
		Religious scholars such as Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, and Pierre Abélard wrote lengthy theological and philosophical treatises, often attempting to reconcile the teachings of the Greek and Roman pagan authors with the doctrines of the Church.
		Hagiographies, or "lives of the saints", were also frequently written, as an encouragement to the devout and a warning to others.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Medieval_literature (1450 words)

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		3 Chestre's Sir Launfalwas printed by J. Ritson in Ancient English Metrical Romances (1802) ; and by L. Erling (Kempten, 1883).
		France," generally interpreted to mean that Marie was a native of the Ile de France, she seems to have been of Norman origin, and certainly spent most of her life in England.
		ii., 1867), is another version of Lanval, and differs from Chestre's.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=43273 (1221 words)

	Arthurian Annals
		Included are the texts of "Ywaine and Gawin" (MS: Early 15th century), "Launfal" (Thomas Chestre, 1400-1450), "Lybeaus Disconus" (Chestre, 1425), "The Marriage of Sir Gawaine" (MS: Early 16th century), and a "Chronicle of Engleland," (the Short Metrical Chronicle of the 14th century).
		In the third part of the poem (added to two traditional Thomas ballads), Thomas of Ercildoune at a feast sings a ballad about Arthur's knights which is summarized in 13 quatrains.
		Based on the 12th-century Tristan of Thomas of Britain and possibly intended to be a parody of that work, the poem is incomplete and Scott composed a pastiche conclusion.
	www.unr.edu /cla/ch/boardman/annals/1800-1804.htm (2468 words)

	Sir Launfal: Introduction
		Thomas Chestre's Sir Launfal, written in the late fourteenth century, is preserved in only one early fifteenth-century manuscript: British Library MS Cotton Caligula A. ii.
		When Thomas Chestre composed his version of the narrative, he drew on three earlier texts, two of which survive.
		Bliss assumes that Chestre wrote for a peasant audience, but if we consider how and where the text itself might have been performed, read, or copied into a manuscript, we would likely establish a potentially wider and somewhat more varied audience, perhaps not peasant, but certainly mercantile.
	www.library.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/launint.htm (3256 words)

	Complaint Bristol Tuckers, 1568
		Chestre beyeng a free Cytizen borne and sonne unto the naturaleste Cytizen that was in bristow in our tyme who wolde wee beleeve have spent muche monney in the Cyties behalff, or it shulde have had this slaunder wee say who wolde have thought that Mr.
		For before Bristowe with all for inhabitants were free and had their liberty always to send their goods unto the seas.
		Chestre, being a free Citizen born, and son unto the most natural Citizen that was in bristow in our time (who would we believe have spent much money in the City's behalf – or it should have had this slander); we say who would have thought that Mr.
	www.bris.ac.uk /Depts/History/Maritime/Sources/1568tuckers.htm (1072 words)

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		Chestre introduces some new elements into the story of the knight and his fairy mistress, including a conflict between the knight and Arthur's Queen Gwenore.
		Thomas Percy summarized the poem in his essay on metrical romances in the Reliques (1765).
		The earliest surviving manuscript of the romance composed in a Southern dialect c1325 and usually attributed to Chestre.
	www.unr.edu /cla/ch/boardman/annals/Ear15th.htm (4648 words)

	Sir Launfal, Notes
		Chestre's Merlin advises Arthur to marry Guenevere; elsewhere, Merlin commonly counsels Arthur against marrying Guenevere.
		Although Chrétien de Troyes and other high and late medieval authors frequently idealized Guenevere, the portrait of her in Chestre's poem is consistent with the earliest written records of her character; that is, Guenevere's affair with Lancelot is not mentioned in Sir Launfal.
		Chestre's iconography here may simply indicate Dame Tryamour's aristocratic rank as a king's daughter, but it may also add to the powerful warrior imagery already established in the description of Dame Tryamour's horse.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/launfnts.htm (6431 words)

	Middle English Texts Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Thomas Hoccleve was born in 1367 and entered government service as clerk in the office of the Privy Seal in 1387, an office that he held until his death in 1426.
		Editions of Thomas of Hales' Love Rune; In a Valley of This Restless Mind; The Dispute between Mary and the Cross; The Four Leaves of the Truelove; The Bird with Four Feathers; Pety Job; and The Sinner's Lament.
		Includes "Sir Orfeo"; "Lay le Freine"; "Sir Degaré"; "Emaré"; Thomas Chestre's "Sir Launfal"; "Sir Gowther"; "Erle of Tolous"; and "Sir Cleges." Appendices include Marie de France's The Lay of the Ash Tree and The Lay of Sir Launfal and the anonymous Sir Landevale.
	www.wmich.edu /medieval/mip/books/midengl.htm (6897 words)

	English 443 Home Page
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		Examine the themes of Marie de France's Lanval and Thomas Chestre's Sir Launfal.
		Discuss the extent to which Chestre has transformed the tale, the effect of the transformation, and the possible reasons why Chestre made his changes.
	www.csun.edu /~sk36711/WWW2/engl443/essays.htm (496 words)

	Vives/The Instruction of A Christen Woman. Name Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Adaptation of a French tale attributed to Thomas Chestre; knighted by Arthur, an illegitimate son of Gawain vanquishes evil and escapes a sorceress before rescuing and wedding a princess [E4r].
		The chaste wife of Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, she was raped by Sextus Tarquinius, son of Tarquinius Superbus; she killed herself to uphold the family honor, becoming an emblem of female virtue and a legendary heroine of ancient Rome.
		A ward of Sir Thomas More, she was skilled in medicine; she married Dr. John Clement in 1530 [E1r].
	www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/vives/names.html (11309 words)

	Lecture on Women in Romances: Malcor
		In 1375 A.D. Thomas Chestre also writes a "Lay of Sir Launfal," basing his work on Marie's poem as well as on a Welsh survival of the Celtic legend of Launfal.
		Chestre tells the story of a foreign prince (similar to Lancelot) who is a priest/knight (similar to Percival or Galahad).
		As unacceptable as this portrayal of a woman was in the 15th century, the fact remains that the story was remembered and that the author, if not his editor, was willing to write the scene.
	academics.vmi.edu /english/arthuriana_pedagogy/lecture_women_malcor.html (2012 words)

	In Search of Arthur Bibliograpghicla Timeline
		Thomas Chestre, Libeaus Desconus (p), authorship not certain, see also "Le Bel Inconnnu" and "Wigalois"
		Thomas Malory [England, c.1410-c.1471], landmark English text, closed the issue of Arthur until the 19th century.
		He was considered a rogue, and spent large amounts of time in prison where he is thought to have written Morte d'Arthur.
	www.celtic-twilight.com /camelot/infopedia/insearchofarthur.htm (1975 words)

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		Though their hallowed retirement has been profaned by the encroachments of the growing city, yet in their simple dignity these fine old colonial mansions still bespeak the noble associations of the past, and stand as memorials of the finest products of American culture.
		Elmwood was built before the Revolution by Thomas Oliver, the Tory governor, who signed his abdication at the invitation of a committee of "about four thousand people" who surrounded his house at Cambridge.
		Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who was one of the younger boys of the school, recalls the high talk of Story and Lowell about the _Fairie Queen_.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/17948/17948-8.txt (13576 words)

	A brief History of English-language Literature
		Thomas Hardy (Britain, 1840): "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (1886) +
		Thomas Hardy (Britain, 1840): "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" (1891) +
		Thomas Hardy (Britain, 1840): "Jude the Obscure" (1896)
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	Elfinspell: Introduction, Early English Romances in Verse done into Modern English by Edith Rickert; online text, ...
		It must be admitted that most of the charm of Chestre’s poem is due to his originals, upon which he by no means improved.
		The simple fact is, he had a good story to tell, wherein the element of suspense is so well managed that not until almost the last stanza do we know the hero’s fate.
		It is upon the working out, then, of the plot (which Chestre weakened) and not upon character-drawing, or upon vividness of detail, that the interest depends.
	www.elfinspell.com /EERIntro.html (6823 words)

	MetaWiki \| ATHURIANA Chronology. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Thomas Chestre, Libeaus Desconus (p), authorship not certain, see also "Le Bel Inconnnu" and "Wigalois"; Sir Percyvelle of Galles (p);
		Thomas Hughes, The Misfortunes of Arthur; 1590-6 ; Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, a masterpiece.
		Thomas Malory [England, c.1410-c.1471], landmark English text, closed the issue of Arthur until the 19th century.
	cena12arthur.metawiki.com /arthuriana (2296 words)

	§11. Fairy Tales. XIII. Metrical Romances, 1200–1500. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. ...
		Volume I. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance.
		The different versions of Launfal—Landavall in couplets Launfal Miles of Thomas Chestre, in rime couèe, and the degenerate Sir Lambewell of the Percy MS—have been carefully studied and made to exhibit some of the ordinary processes of translation and adaptation.
		They come from Marie de France—Thomas Chestre took something from the lay of Graelent besides the main plot of Lanval.
	www.bartleby.com /211/1311.html (405 words)

	Wilfrid Laurier University - Faculty of Arts - English - Faculty/Staff Listing - James Weldon
		Publications Include: "Jousting for Identity: Tournaments in Thomas Chestre’s Sir Launfal.?Parergon, New Series 17.2 (January 2000): 107-123; "Decorative Reading: Some Implications of Ordinatio in Piers Plowman.?Florilegium 14 (1995-96): 137-156; "Ordinatio and Genre in MS CCC 201: A Mediaeval Reading of the B-Text of Piers Plowman." Florilegium 12 (1993): 159-175.
		Modified portions of this article appear in Disk 1: MS CCC 201 of The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; " "Gesture of Perception: The Pattern of Kneeling in Piers Plowman B.18-19." Yearbook of Langland Studies 3 (1989): 49-66; "The Structure of Dream Visions in Piers Plowman." Mediaeval Studies 49 (Summer 1987): 254-281.
		I am also working on an edition of the works of Thomas Chestre in two versions.
	www.wlu.ca /homepage.php?grp_id=305&ct_id=217&f_id=292 (284 words)

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		Thomas de Deuethwayt for the death of Elias Addison on Sunday before
		whereof by the death of Thomas de Clifford, knight, tenant in chief, is in
		Richard Tempest and Richard Redmayn, knights, Robert Waterton, Thomas Clarell and Edmund FitzWilliam, esquires, as the king is going in person to the duchy of Normandy and other parts of France
	www.uiowa.edu /~c030149a/Johnson/notes.htm (3667 words)

	MARIE DE FRANCE (fl. c... - Online Information article about MARIE DE FRANCE (fl. c...
		Thomas Chestre, who is generally supposed to have lived in the reign of See also:
		SALISBURY, THOMAS DE MONTACUTE, 4TH EARL OF (1388-1428)
		For the relations between Lanval and the Lai de Graelent, wrongly ascribed to Marie by Roquefort, see W. See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAL_MAR/MARIE_DE_FRANCE_fl_c_1175_119o_.html (1611 words)

	Marie de France
		She is also mentioned by the anonymous author of the Couronnement Renart.
		Her lays were translated into Norwegian by order of Haakon IV; and Thomas Chestre, who is generally supposed to have lived in the reign of Henry VI, gave a version of Lanval.
		Very little is known about her history, and until comparatively recently the very century in which she lived remained a matter of dispute.
	www.nndb.com /people/898/000094616 (946 words)

	Arthurian Literature:0859917983:Busby, Keith; Dalrymple, Roger :eCampus.com
		A controversial textual crux in Chretien's Yvain, debated vigorously by scholars in the late 1980s, is revisited, while the narrative function of clothing in Chretien's romances comesunder review.
		There is discussion of Thomas Chestre's adoption of the lai as a vehicle for social criticism in his Middle English adaptation of Marie de France's Lanval; the evolution of Arthurian romancein medieval England is also the primary concern in a stud
		VI The Blinding of Gwennere: Thomas Chestre as Social Critic
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	Arthurian Literature 20, 0859917983, £45.00/$80.00, 217pp, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A controversial textual crux in Chrétien's Yvain, debated vigorously by scholars in the late 1980s, is revisited, while the narrative function of clothing in Chrétien's romances comes under review.
		There is discussion of Thomas Chestre's adoption of the lai as a vehicle for social criticism in his Middle English adaptation of Marie de France's Lanval; the evolution of Arthurian romance in medieval England is also the primary concern in a study of The Awntyrs off Arthure.
		The figure of Arthur himself is central to an examination of the Middle English Prose Brut, and the delicate political implications of Malory's Morte Darthur are explored.
	www.boydell.co.uk /59917983.HTM (450 words)

	Music and Magic in Le Bel Inconnu and Lybeaus Desconus
		Throughout the era there was a suspicion of entertainers, perhaps best expressed in the much quoted discussion by Thomas de Cobham, Archbishop of Canterbury in the late thirteenth century.
		The fée is reduced to a dangerous distraction from the hero’s true love and purpose; all magic is associated with figures who work against the hero’s best interests; and the ending is unambiguously resolved.
		Lybeaus Desconus, attributed by some to Thomas Chestre, exists in six manuscripts, most dating from the mid-fifteenth century, and the poem is thought to date from the late fourteenth century.
	www.sfsu.edu /~medieval/Volume4/Zaerr.html (7036 words)

	studyquestions
		127-48; excerpts from Thomas of Britain's Romance of Tristan and Ysolt, pp.
		Compare the function of channel crossings in Béroul's and Thomas' versions of the myth.
		Study the images of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere drawn by the French romance authors you have read (Béroul, Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France) and by the English Thomas Chestre.
	www.english.ucsb.edu /faculty/cpaster/courses/fc/studyquestions.html (6413 words)

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