Jean de Saintre: A Late Medieval Education in Love and Chivalry
ISBN: 9780812209396
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Saintré Jehan de approximately 1320–1368 -- Fiction;

Jean de Saintré is the intriguing story of a young knight's training, his first love, and his disillusionment. It teems with details of armor, jousting and tournaments, heraldry and crusading--and also with a cheerful, and unexpected, eroticism.


Roberta L. Krueger is Burgess Professor of French at Hamilton College and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance. Jane H. M. Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Medieval French at Durham University and author of The Making of Poetry: Late-Medieval French Poetic Anthologies and The Poetry of Francois Villon: Text and Context.
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