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What makes Breton lays ‘Breton’? Bretons, Britons and Celtic ‘otherness’ in medieval romance

Etudes Epistémè, 2014
An exploration of the semantic and cultural fields behind the term ‘Breton’ suggests that the modern word ‘Celtic’ corresponds better to what is implied by the expression ‘Breton lay’.
Leo Carruthers
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Graftings, Reweavings and Interpretation: The Auchinleck Middle English Breton Lays in Manuscript and Edition

Etudes Epistémè, 2014
This essay argues that the material textual context provides a framework for reading the Middle English Breton Lays in the Auchinleck MS and in contemporary editions.
Anne Laskaya
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Loyalty and Treason in Some Middle English Breton Lays

Etudes Epistémè, 2014
Middle English Breton lays often depict a feudal world that rests on mutual trust and fealty between a lord and his vassals, and in which love relations are conceived in terms of a covenant that binds the knight to his beloved, whether mortal or fairy ...
Agnès Blandeau
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Representations of the Self in the Middle English Breton Lays

Etudes Epistémè, 2014
Starting from the fact that in the time gap between the oldest and the newest of the Breton lays the literary character as such can be seen to emerge, this article goes further to remark that women are the roundest characters.
Joanny Moulin
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Love and Marriage in the Breton Lays [PDF]

Etudes Epistémè, 2014
Love is usually said to be the central concern of the Middle English Breton lays, as of the French ones. But in fact the English poems pay relatively little attention to romantic love, and are more concerned with identity, family separation and reunion ...
Elizabeth Archibald
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Moghaddassi, Fanny. 2025. Space in Medieval Romance. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xv + 304. ISBN 9783031809521.

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Review of Moghaddassi, Fanny. 2025. Space in Medieval Romance: Constructing Narrative Space in the Middle English Breton Lays. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xv + 304. ISBN 9783031809521.
Anne Laskaya
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Sir Launfal: an echo to Breton Lays?

Etudes Epistémè, 2014
Echoes are a distinguishing feature of Middle English Breton lays, which resound with many voices, and hinge around the problem of articulating repetition and variation.
Fanny Moghaddassi
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Echoes of ‘Nemi’? Patterns of Challenge, Sexual Violence and Substitution in Sir Orfeo and Sir Degaré

Etudes Epistémè, 2014
This essay examines patterns involving challenge, single combat, substitutions, paternity, sovereignty, tree symbolism and raptus in the Middle English Breton lays Sir Orfeo and Sir Degaré through the lens of Frazer’s The Golden Bough, and specifically ...
Sharon Rowley
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Le passé recomposé des lais bretons en moyen-anglais : Le Lay le Freine, Sir Orfeo, Sir Degaré, Sir Launfal et The Franklin’s Tale

Etudes Epistémè, 2014
The prologues opening several Middle English Breton lays display both proximity and distance with the Breton lai tradition. The most striking difference lies in the absence of an argument put forward in the prologues of the French poems, which justifies ...
Mireille Séguy
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La musique du vers dans les lais bretons et le décasyllabe du Franklin’s Tale

Etudes Epistémè, 2014
This paper studies Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale, a self-styled Breton lay, and compares it to three typical Middle English Breton lays, Sir Launfal, Sir Orfeo and Lay le Freine. The Franklin’s Tale is written in pentameters while the other three are written
Colette Stévanovitch
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