Index
The Arthurian cycle
The Lancelot-Graal cycle / Lancelot in prose / Vulgate cycle / Pseudo-Map cycle
- History of the Holy Grail
- The Story of Merlin the Enchanter
- Lancelot's childhood
- The Loves of Lancelot du Lac
- Galehaut, Lord of the Distant Islands
- The Knight with the Cart
- The adventurous castle
- The Holy Grail
- The Death of Artus
Little Grail Cycle / Trilogy by Robert de Boron
Tristanian matter
- The childhoods of Tristan
- The Morholt of Ireland
- The Quest for the Golden Haired Beauty
- The potion
- Brangien delivered to the serfs
- The big pine
- The dwarf Frocin
- The vault of the chapel
- The Morois forest
- Hermit Ogrin
- The Adventurous Ford
- Judgment by the hot iron
- The voice of the nightingale
- The wonderful bell
- Iseut aux Blanches Mains
- Kaherdin
- Lidan dinas
- Crazy tristan
- The death
context
The Historia regum Britanniae is a Latin manuscript written between 1135 and 1138, by the writer Welsh Geoffrey of Monmouth.
This is a legendary story of the kings of the island of Brittany (“Brittany” here designates present-day Great Britain and not Armorican Brittany) since Brutus, the myth founder, until Cadwaladr. This is the first appearance of notable characters such as Merlin, Uther Pendragon and King Arthur. Close to the chronicle, the text presents the succession of a hundred reigns with epic passages. The author claims that it is a translation of the Britannici sermonis liber vetustissimus, a source whose existence is strongly contested.
The work had great success in the Middle Ages, since 215 manuscripts are listed. It marks the literary birth of the matter of Brittany and will have a decisive influence on the legend Arthurian. A French adaptation was made by the Norman trouvère Wace in 1155 titled Le roman de Brut.
the book begins with a dedication to Stephen of Blois, King of England and Robert, Earl of Gloucester. An idyllic description of Brittany, “located in the Ocean between the Gaul and Ireland", tells us that it is populated by the Normans[1], the Bretons[2], the Saxons, the Picts and the Scots.
