Chivalric Romance
A novel of chivalry is a work of fiction, usually in prose, inspired or adapted from romances and epics in to the eleventh andthirteenth centuries.
History
The first novels of chivalry were Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart and Yvain, the Knight of the Lion , while two of Chretien de Troyes in the twelfth century.
The genre enjoyed great popularity in the sixteenth century in Italy with The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso , and in Spain and Portugal.
The last book of the kind may be of Policisne Boecia , published in 1602 , but many were reprinted during the seventeenth century. The genre was for Miguel de Cervantes, the subject of a parody in Don Quixote , in the early seventeenth century.
The romance of chivalry was a renewal of interest in the eighteenth century , particularly in France with adaptations Count Tressan , entitled Excerpts from the novels of chivalry. These novels also very supportive in England inspired the Romanticism which they have named. It is also the origin of the mode of Neo-Gothic and troubadour style.
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