CHAPTER SIX
The Middle Ages Part Four:
The Vulgate Cycle
“They agreed at last that they would speak to the nurse of King Arthur’s betrothed, and they would be so generous toward her that, on the night when Guenevere was to lie down with her husband, the old woman would put the seneschal’s daughter [the False Guinevere] with the king instead of her; and she would take Guenevere to play in the garden that evening and ‘then we will seize her and take her to such a place that he will never hear news of her.’”200
— Lancelot from the Lancelot-Grail Cycle
Importance of the Vulgate Cycle
The Vulgate Cycle (also known as the Lancelot-Grail Cycle) is comprised of five interconnected tales that tell the story of King Arthur from his birth to his death. It is believed to have been written in ear
