Narratives of knights, love and adventure told at court, including the German courtly romance of the Middle High German period and the Japanese monogatari, a fictional or fictionalized tale tied to the oral tradition. A genre belongs here when its cited article describes it as a romance, a courtly or chivalric narrative or a tale of court life. It excludes heroic epic and folk tale. The group is organised by form and tradition so that a reader can compare related genres side by side.
Romance and Courtly Narrative
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Chivalric Romance (Wikipedia)
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the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe
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As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe.
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In the Middle High German (MHG) period (1050-1350) the courtly romance, written in rhyming couplets, was the dominant narrative genre in the literature of the noble courts, and the romances of Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg and Wolfram von Eschenbach, written c. 1185, c. 1210, are recognized as classics.
Monogatari (Wikipedia)
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The form was prominent around the 9th to 15th centuries, reaching a peak between the 10th and 13th centuries.
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