Chivalric romance

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title: Chivalric romance
text: As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a chivalric knight-errant portrayed as having heroic qualities, who goes on a quest. It developed further from the epics as time went on; in particular, "the emphasis on love and courtly manners distinguishes it from the chanson de geste and other kinds of epic, in whic
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description: Type of prose and verse narrative
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivalric_romance
date created: 2005-01-25T17:13:14Z
date modified: 2024-09-07T13:23:08Z
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