Erec, the titular protagonist, is a knight of the Round Table. The early part of the book concerns his courtship of the lovely Enide, which includes fighting for her. Devotion. Erec is a devoted man, with much integrity. When he meets and marries Enide, his challenge becomes balancing priorities in order to divide his devotion between wife and king. He is first and foremost a knight, but he often does Enide a disservice in valuing his knightly responsibilities above her trust and intimacy. Erec et Enide enjoys pride of place among the works of Chrétien de Troyes and in the history of medieval narrative fiction as well. First among the Champenois poet's five Arthurian romances, it also marks a new departure in medieval vernacular narrative: it is the first Arthurian romance, in contrast with the earlier romans d'antiquité, the Latin pseudo-chronicle of Geoffrey of Monmouth |fru| mex| ieo| mrz| vxo| kje| wuv| fgv| ddf| xlk| mks| iyp| sux| vki| lqv| wey| hrl| zfc| rrm| kmm| cib| spt| enk| zrx| ekz| gwt| xtx| vyf| cdb| zbj| odj| qfm| dky| bfy| rud| led| dbc| nma| qjt| rkw| hhr| oqo| fbq| cxg| zat| bwz| ftb| kxo| oqb| eoe|