Richard Coer de Lyon
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Richard Coer de Lyon is a Middle English popular verse romance which gives a fictionalised account of the life of Richard I, King of England, concentrating on his exploits in the Third Crusade. It was
The frontispiece of the 1528 printing of Richard Coer de Lyon
Richard's supposed joust with Saladin was widely depicted in art, such as in these 13th-century tiles from Chertsey Abbey.
A spread from the 1528 printing of the verse romance Richard Coer de Lyon depicting Richard's arrival at Acre.
Tomb effigy of William Longespée the Younger
King Alisaunder
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King Alisaunder or Kyng Alisaunder is a Middle English romance or romantic epic in about 4,000 octosyllabic couplets. It tells the story of Alexander the Great's career from his youth, through his suc
Richard Coer de Lyon
…copyists. One passage in Richard (Larkin edition ll.3759-71) is very similar to passages in two other romances that are also in the Auchinleck manuscript, King Alisaunder and Of Arthour and of Merlin, and Eugen Kölbing proposes that the three had the same original author. Laura Hibbard Loomis suggests that it is not…
Portrait of Alexander from a 14th-century manuscript