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Amadis of Gaul

Url:	http://amadisofgaul.blogspot.com
Author(s):	Sue Burke
Language:	English
Tags:	literature, medieval, chivalry
Description:	Translation of the Renaissance best-seller, Amadis of Gaul, from Spanish. A new chapter each week. This novel drove Don Quixote mad. What will it do to you?
Ratings	(1 Ratings)
Popularity:	14 Followers

Chapter 24 [last half]

[How Sir Galaor came to learn who the dead knight was and how he died.][Inside the Royal Castle in Segovia, Spain. Photo by Sue Burke.]+Sir Galaor remained alone with the dead knight, since he had ...more

2009-12-22

Index of dramatis personae, Chapters 0-24

A list of the major characters, to help those who have gotten confused or who have just joined. [Tomb of El Doncel (the Young Nobleman) Martín Vázquez de Arce in the Cathedral of Sigüenza, Spain. H...more

2009-12-17

Chapter 24 [first half]

How Amadis, Galaor, and Balais decided to go to King Lisuarte, and the adventures that happened to them on the way. [The tomb of William de Valance the Younger, who died in 1282, in Dorchester Abbe...more

2009-12-08

Five links to the past

Some interesting websites related to Amadis or medieval times. A detail from an illumination in The Romance of Alexander the Great. +The Romance of Alexander the Great

2009-12-03

Chapter 23

How King Lisuarte, leaving to hunting as he usually did, saw three armed knights coming down the road, and what happened to him with them.

2009-11-24

The house where Cervantes was born

As an adult, Cervantes suffers constant money troubles, but his parents had lived well. [Don Quixote recites a passage from Chapter II of a book about him as we sit in front of Cervantes' Birthplac...more

2009-11-19

"From Best-Seller to Oblivion"

An essay in which I argue that we can't blame it all on Cervantes. The November 2009 issue of the Internet Review of Science Fiction includes my essay "From Best-Seller to Oblivion: A Renaissance L...more

2009-11-12

Chapter 22

About how Amadis left the lady's castle, and what happened to him on the road.[Sohail Castle, Fuengirola, Spain. This polygonal fortress stands on a small hill on the Mediterranean coast. A fort ha...more

2009-11-10

Who was Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo?

We know little about the life of the knight who created the only surviving version of Amadís de Gaula.[Detail from "The Descent from the Cross" by Pedro Machuca, which hangs in the Prado Museum.

2009-11-05

Chapter 21 [final third]

[How Amadis came to pledge his aid to the beautiful girl.][Detail from "The Lady and the Unicorn," a series of six wool and silk tapestries made from designs drawn in Paris in the late 1400s, on di...more

2009-10-27

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