Le Roman de Perceforest

The Roman de Perceforest – dauntingly long and richly complex – has only recently begun to attract significant scholarly attention : thanks to the editorial work of Gilles Roussineau, more than half of this once largely inaccessible text is now available in modern critical edition. The work was long regarded as a product of the mid fourteenth century, due to the narrator’s claim to be working on behalf of Count Guillaume I of Hainaut, but was also understood as having been revived and reworke..