Three Mediators and Three Venerable Books: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Mohammed, Chrétien de Troyes

David Rollo

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Medieval Literature and History Medieval Iberian Studies Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies

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Both William of Newburgh and Chrétien de Troyes endeavor to inform their contemporaries of the specious nature of the Galfridian past, the first by drawing unflattering analogies between Geoffrey and Mohammed, the second by creatively realigning Arthurian Britain to the service of vernacular fiction.

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