by jac3 | Aug 18, 2018
England primarily 12th through 15th centuries Legends of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table The legends of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table have been the favorites of poets, painters, and politicians for centuries. Perhaps this is because...
by jac3 | Aug 18, 2018
Italy Published: 1483 CE; 1495 CE Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato Written for a fifteenth-century Italian court society hooked on Arthurian romance but also attuned to current world events, Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love) charts a complex...
by jac3 | Aug 2, 2018
Spain First edition, 1490 Joanot Martorell Tirant lo Blanch A Valencian knight named Joanot Martorell replaced his sword with a pen on January 2, 1460, in order to narrate the adventures of a fictional knight. This undertaking resulted in...
by jac3 | Aug 1, 2018
Spain First edition, 1496; oldest extant edition, 1508. Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo Amadís de Gaula Amadis de Gaula (Amadis of Gaul) was the most famous and bravest knight in the entire Hispanic literary tradition, that is, until a crazy gentleman in a...
by jac3 | Jul 21, 2018
Germany First printed in 1517 Maximilian I et al., Theuerdank Composed in rhymed couplets, the German epic Theuerdank narrates the adventures of the eponymous knight on his journey to meet his fiancée, Princess Ehrenreich. First printed in 1517 by...
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