Benoît de Sainte-Maure (d1173) was a 12th century French poet, from Saint-Maure, Indre-et-Loire. This article is a general introduction to French literature For detailed information on French literature in specific historic periods see the separate historical articles in the Medieval French literature is for the purpose of this article Literature written in Oïl languages (particularly Old French and early Middle For more information on historical developments in this period see Renaissance, History of France, and Early Modern France. French literature of the 17th century &mdashthe so-called Grand Siècle &mdashspans the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de Medici French literature of the 18th century usually refers to the literature written between 1715, the year of the death of King Louis XIV of France, and 1798 the year French literature of the nineteenth century is for the purpose of this article literature written in French from (roughly 1799 to 1900 French literature of the twentieth century is for the purpose of this article literature written in French from (roughly 1895 to 1990 Contemporary French literature is French literature roughly from the 1990s to Today. Chronological list of French language authors (regardless of nationality by date of birth This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" His 40,000 line poem Le Roman de Troie ("The Romance of Troy"), written between 1155 and 1160,^[1] was a medieval retelling on the epic theme of the Trojan War which inspired a body of literature in the genre called the roman antique, loosely assembled as the Matter of Rome. In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her According to the mediæval poet Jean Bodel, the Matter of Rome was the literary cycle made up of Greek and Roman mythology Le Roman de Troie influenced the works of many, including Chaucer and Shakespeare in the West. Geoffrey Chaucer (c 1343 – 25 October 1400? was an English author poet Philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and Diplomat. William Shakespeare ( baptised In the East it was translated into Greek as The War of Troy (Ο Πόλεμος της Τρωάδος), by far the longest mediaeval Greek romance. Under the Comnenian dynasty Byzantine writers of Twelfth century Constantinople reintroduced the ancient Greek romance novel, imitating its Only Guido da Colonna's Historia Distructionis Troiae was as often adapted. Guido delle Colonne (in Latin Guido de Columnis or de Columna) was an early 13th century Sicilian writer living at Messina, who wrote Benoît's sources for the narrative were the Latin rescensions of Dictys and Dares and some material from the all-but-lost Latin recension that is represented now in part of a single, fragmentary manuscript, the Rawlinson Excidium Troie in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Dictys Cretensis, ( Dictys of Crete) alleged to have been of Knossus in Crete, was the legendary companion of Idomeneus during the Trojan Dares Phrygius, according to Homer ( Iliad, 59 527 was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus. The Rawlinson Excidium Troie ("The War of Troy" discovered among the manuscripts collected by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755 conserved in the Bodleian The Bodleian Library ( the main Research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in England The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the

The audience for Benoît's famous poem was an aristocratic one, for whom this retelling, and the romans antiques in general, served a moral purpose, a "mirror for princes" in the didactic genre of Mirror literature. The medieval genre of speculum literature, popular from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries was inspired by the urge to encompass encyclopedic knowledge within a single ^[2] To fulfil this audience's expectation that heroic characters should be lovers in accordance with the principles of courtly love, Benoît invented the story of the young Trojan prince Troilus's love for the daughter of Calchas, the priestly defector to the Greeks. Courtly love was a Medieval European conception of ennobling love which found its genesis in the ducal and princely courts of Aquitaine, Provence Troilus (also Troilos, Troylus) ( Ancient Greek: Τρωίλος Troïlos Latin: Troilus is a legendary character associated with the story In Greek mythology, Calchas ("bronze-man" son of Thestor was a Argive Seer, with a gift for interpreting the flight of birds that he received After she is handed over to her father during a hostage exchange, she is successfully wooed by the Greek warrior Diomedes. Diomēdēs or Diomed ( Greek: Διομήδης English translation: "God-like cunning" or "advised by Zeus" is a Hero This love triangle would be the central subject of a number of later works. A love triangle is a romantic relationship involving three people In the Roman, the daughter of Calchas is called Briseis, but she is better known under a different name, becoming Criseida in Boccaccio's il Filostrato, Criseyde in Chaucer, Cresseid in Henryson and ultimately Cressida in Shakespeare. In Greek mythology, Brisēís ( Greek Βρισηίς was a Trojan widow (from Lyrnessus) Il Filostrato is a Poem by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, and the inspiration for Geoffrey Chaucer 's Troilus and For other uses see Cressida (disambiguation. Cressida (also Criseida, Cresseid or Criseyde) is a character Robert Henryson was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c For other uses see Cressida (disambiguation. Cressida (also Criseida, Cresseid or Criseyde) is a character ^[1]

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