Partonopeus de Blois

Partonopeus de Blois is a long poem in the chivalric romance genre written in Old French in the 1170s or 1180s.^[1] Its author is unknown, but some scholarly studies indicate Denis Pyramus.

^ Introduction to Partonopeus de Blois Archived 2015-05-05 at the Wayback Machine at Humanities Research Institute at University of Sheffield (website also has the full text of the poem). Concerning the dating of the poem: "One view is that it was first written around 1170, while another is that it dates from the mid 1180s. This question of dating is bound up with another, namely whether Partonopeus influenced the work of the most famous writer of Old French romance, Chrétien de Troyes, or the other way around." In either case, it is widely accepted nowadays that the poem was completed at or before 1188.

[1] Introduction to Partonopeus de Blois Archived 2015-05-05 at the Wayback Machine at Humanities Research Institute at University of Sheffield (website also has the full text of the poem). Concerning the dating of the poem: "One view is that it was first written around 1170, while another is that it dates from the mid 1180s. This question of dating is bound up with another, namely whether Partonopeus influenced the work of the most famous writer of Old French romance, Chrétien de Troyes, or the other way around." In either case, it is widely accepted nowadays that the poem was completed at or before 1188.

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