found: Le roman de Perceforest, 1979- :3. partie, tome 1, title page (Perceforest)
found: Huot, S. Postcolonial fictions in the Roman de Perceforest, 2007.
found: Wikipedia, December 23, 2013(Perceforest; The prose romance of Perceforest with lyrical interludes of poetry, in six books, appears to have been composed in French in the Low Countries between 1330 and 1344. It forms a late addition to the cycle of narratives with loose connections both to the Arthurian cycle and to the feats of Alexander the Great.)
found: Boydell & Brewer website, December 23, 2013:Perceforest: the Prehistory of King Arthur's Britain, translated by Nigel Bryant (Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances. Justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a mine of folkloric motifs", it is the subject of rapidly increasing attention and research. The author of Perceforest draws on Alexander romances, Roman histories and medieval travel writing (not to mention oral tradition, as he gives, for example, the distinctly racy first written version of the Sleeping Beauty story), to create a remarkable prehistory of King Arthur's Britain.) - http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=13527 found: Medieval feminist forum, v. 43, no. 2 (2007), viewed online December 23, 2013:pages 77-78 (Written about 1340, the prose Roman de Perceforest is not well studied. The lengthy, complex work comprises six books. ... The work tells the story of a forgotten, chivalric, pre-Arthurian Britain ruled by a dynasty established by Alexander the Great. The Greeks conquer the native Britons only to be ousted in a later generation. ... The wholly fictional and original story draws on the romance tradition, medieval historiography, travel writing, and English colonial activity in Ireland and Wales; Perceforest) - http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=mff
