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      • The ten-book series began with The Squire's Tale, first published in 1998. His second series, The Knights' Tales, is for younger readers and began with The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great, published in 2008, followed by The Adventures of Sir Givret the Short in the same year.
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  2. May 5, 2008 · The ten-book series began with The Squire's Tale, first published in 1998. His second series, The Knights' Tales, is for younger readers and began with The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great, published in 2008, followed by The Adventures of Sir Givret the Short in the same year.

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  3. May 18, 2009 · The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great (The Knights' Tales Series, 1) Paperback – May 18, 2009. Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur brought justice to England with the help of his gallant Knights of the Round Table.

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    • Lancelot in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur

    Both the English and French cycles of Arthurian Legend are dominated by three inter-related themes: • The fellowship of the knights of the Round Table • The quests for the Holy Grail (the Sangreal) • The Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot love-triangle Throughout, Lancelot is arguably as important a figure as Arthur himself. In French versions of the legend...

    Sir Lancelot first appears in Arthurian legend in ‘Le Chevalier de la Charrette’, one of a set of five Arthurian romances written by the French poet Chrétien de Troyes (completed by Godefroy de Lagny) as a large collection of verses, c.1180 to 1240. Lancelot is characterised alongside other knights, notably Gawain, Kay, and Méléagant (or Meliagaunc...

    Chrétien de Troyes composed ‘Le Chevalier de la Charrette’ at the request of the Countess Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine, then later the wife of Henry II of England. It was apparently written to foster the notion of the ‘Courts of Love’ as the principal settings for (adulterous) social relations rather ...

    ‘Lancelot en Prose’ – The Vulgate Cycle – is a comprehensive trilogy (‘Lancelot Propre’, ‘La Queste del Saint Graal’, and ‘La Mort de Roi Artu’), believed to have been compiled by Cistercian monks between 1215 and 1235 and which mark the transition between verse and prose versions of the Arthurian legend. The authors contrasted earthly chivalry wit...

    Malory frees Lancelot (which he spells as “Launcelot”) from much of the spiritual passion seen in the Vulgate Cycle – instead he emphasizes Lancelot’s relative success, not his ultimate failure, and the passion between the two erstwhile lovers is restrained. Le Morte d’Arthurwas published by William Caxton as 21 books; Sir Lancelot first appears, b...

  4. May 5, 2008 · The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great (The Knights’ Tales Series) Hardcover – May 5, 2008 by Gerald Morris (Author), Aaron Renier (Illustrator) 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings

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  5. About The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great. Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur brought justice to England with the help of his gallant Knights of the Round Table. Sir Lancelot the Great

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  6. 1958-01-01. Topics. TV. Collection. comics_inbox; comics; additional_collections. Language. English. The Adventures of Sir Lancelot. Exciting Stories from the Television Series. A book based on the 1958 television series starring William Russell as Sir Lancelot, a knight of the Round Table.

  7. The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great. Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur brought justice to England with the help of his gallant Knights of the Round Table. Of these worthy knights, there was never one so fearless, so chivalrous, so honorable, so...shiny as the dashing Sir Lancelot, who was quite good at defending ...

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