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Lancelot – eine komplexe Figur zwischen höfischer Liebe und Gralsrittertum

  • Brigitte Burrichter
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Emotion und Handlung im Artusroman
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Abstract

Lancelot is a very complex figure because of his participation in the three irreconcilable value systems represented in the Arthurian romances of the 12th and 13th centuries, namely those associated with chivalric ethos, fin’amors and the world of the Holy Grail. In addition to this, the narrators do not always explain his motivations or how they relate to these individual value systems. A comparative reading of two contrasting works, Chrétien’s Le Chevalier de la Charrette and the vulgate/Lancelot-grail cycle, shows how Lancelot’s intentions are left unclear to the reader for a long time; their secrecy surrounds him with an aura of mystery.

Abstract

Lancelot is a very complex figure because of his participation in the three irreconcilable value systems represented in the Arthurian romances of the 12th and 13th centuries, namely those associated with chivalric ethos, fin’amors and the world of the Holy Grail. In addition to this, the narrators do not always explain his motivations or how they relate to these individual value systems. A comparative reading of two contrasting works, Chrétien’s Le Chevalier de la Charrette and the vulgate/Lancelot-grail cycle, shows how Lancelot’s intentions are left unclear to the reader for a long time; their secrecy surrounds him with an aura of mystery.

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