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Post-Vulgate Cycle

Post-Vulgate Cycle
Morgan le Fay gives King Arthur the fake Excalibur in a 14th-century copy of the Post-Vulgate Suite de Merlin
AuthorUnknown (self-attributed to Robert de Boron), probably an anonymous single scribe (speculated to be a member of the Cistercian Order)
LanguageOld French (originally)
SubjectMatter of Britain
GenreChivalric romance
Publication date
Estimated 1230–1240
Publication placeKingdom of France

The Post-Vulgate Cycle, also known as the Post-Vulgate Arthuriad, the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal (Romance of the Grail) or the Pseudo-Robert de Boron Cycle,[1] is one of the major Old French prose cycles of Arthurian literature from the early 13th century. It is considered essentially a rewriting of the earlier and more popular Vulgate Cycle (also known as the Lancelot-Grail cycle), with much left out but also much added, including characters and scenes from the Prose Tristan. The cycle has not survived in any manuscript in its entirety and has been reconstructed from French, Spanish, and Portuguese fragments in several medieval languages.

  1. ^ Kibler, William W.; Zinn, Grover A. (1995). Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780824044442.

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Post-Vulgate French Ciclo da Pos-Vulgata GL Post-Vulgata Italian 後期流布本サイクル Japanese Post-Vulgate-syklusen NB Ciclo do Pseudo-Boron Portuguese

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