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Church and Chronicle in the Middle Age - Essays Presented to John Taylor
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Church and Chronicle in the Middle Age - Essays Presented to John TaylorChurch and Chronicle in the Middle Age - Essays Presented to John Taylor

The decline of the Merovingians and the rise of the Garolingians is a topic that is usually seen through Carolingian eyes. In large measure this is the
inevitable outcome of the distribution of source-material. Apart from the Liber historiae Francorum and the continuations to the chronicle of Fredegar, most of our evidence is not actually contemporary, and the continuations were commissioned by members of the Carolingian family. This problem of the sources makes it particularly important for the Merovingianist to scrutinise his or her information with extreme care.
 
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Tags: continuations, Carolingian, sources, particularly, important, Church, Presented, Taylor
Chrétien Continued: A Study of the Conte du Graal and its Verse Continuations
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Chrétien Continued: A Study of the Conte du Graal and its Verse ContinuationsChrétien Continued: A Study of the Conte du Graal and its Verse Continuations

Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner provides the first book-length examination of all four verse continuations that follow Chrétien's unfinished Grail story, a powerful site of rewriting from the late twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. By focusing on the dialogue between Chrétien and the verse continuators, this study demonstrates how the patterns and puzzles inscribed in the first author's romance continue to guide his successors, whose additions and reinventions throw new light back on the problems medieval readers and writers found in the mother text:
 
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