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Article: Chevalerie et grivoiserie: fabliaux de chevalerie.(Book Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 2004
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Chevalerie et grivoiserie: fabliaux de chevalerie, ed. and trans. Jean-Luc Leclanche, Champion Classiques: Moyen Age 3 (Paris: Champion, 2003). xxii + 281 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0735-5. 9.00 [euro]. This volume, the first of an unspecified number, presents five well-known fabliaux (Le Prestre et le chevalier, Berengier au lone cul, La Dame escoillee, Guillaume au faucon, Le Foteor; an appendix includes Les Putains et les lecheors and Le Lai du lecheor) deemed similar by virtue of the chivalric identity of both the main protagonist and the texts' alleged audience. User-friendliness is the overriding concern. Although derived from the diplomatic transcriptions printed in the ...