Renee Curtis's three-volume critical edition of the Prose Tristan
is the only edition of this very important medieval work ever
published; until the first volume appeared in 1963, the work was
only accessible in the form of a few fragments which had been
edited and a summary of the romance made by E. Loseth in 1891. Dr
Curtis's edition is based on a complete collation of all the
manuscripts and this led her to choose the Carpentras manuscript
404 as the basis of her edition. This second volume appeared
in1976. Professor Brian Woledge, the eminent medievalislt, wrote of
the first volume in Erasmus: "The publication of this book is an
event of some importance in Arthurian studies. The Prose Tristan
was one of the most widely read works in medieval France; written
between1215 and 1235, it continued to be copied until the end of
the Middle Ages and its popularity lasted another hundred years in
printed editions. It was in fact in prose rather than in poetic
form that the legend was known.... Dr Curtis is to warmly
congratulated on undertaking this important task"
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