The most complete and beautiful restoration of Joseph Bedier’s classic ever to appear in the English language. Including, Gaston Paris’s original Preface, Bedier’s historic essay On the Nature of the Legend of Tristan and Iseult and Vincent Nicolosi’s penetrating new introduction. In an exquisite, archival edition – one very much like the tale itself, digne des ages: worthy of the ages.
Reviews
‘Gorgeously medieval.’
- The New York Times
‘A philogocial miracle.’
- Joseph Campbell
‘Theirs is incomparably the greatest love story in the world.’
- Lewis Galantiere
Author description
Joseph Bedier (1864 – 1938), born in Paris to a family of Celtic origin, was brought up on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, though he was educated in Paris. He became one fo the preeminent French medievalists and literary historians of his time and is best known for his modern French prose translation of the Le roman de Tristan et Iseult, first published in 1900.
Hilaire Belloc (1870 – 1953), Anglo-French historian, essayist, novelist, poet and translator was born at Saint-Cloud, Paris, the son of a French father and an English mother; he spent most of his life in England. He was the author of approximately 150 volumes, and his beautiful rendering into English of Bedier’s The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is, perhaps, the most enduring and beloved of his works.
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