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- Kyot abstract "For the radio station in Phoenix, Arizona, see KYOT-FM.Kyot the Provençal was the French poet who supplied Wolfram von Eschenbach with the source for his poetic epic Parzival, according to Wolfram. Wolfram may have been referring to the northern French poet Guiot de Provins, but this identification has proven unsatisfactory. Many or most scholars believe Kyot was an invention, and that Wolfram's true sources were Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail and his own abundant creativity.Wolfram does not mention Kyot until Book 8 of Parzival, where he abruptly names him as his source. Kyot's story is elaborated upon in Book 9, where Wolfram explains the Provençal had uncovered a neglected Arabic manuscript in Moorish Toledo, Spain. The manuscript was written by Flegetanis, a Muslim astronomer and a descendant of Solomon who had found the secrets of the Holy Grail written in the stars. After learning Arabic to read Flegetanis' document, Kyot traveled throughout Europe to learn more about the Grail and the brotherhood that protected it. He finally came to Anjou, where he found the history of Parzival (Percival)'s family and wrote the tale which would later be retold by Wolfram. Wolfram explains he had not revealed Kyot earlier because the Provençal had asked to remain anonymous until the right point in the story. Wolfram mentions doubters who had questioned him about his source, and says their skepticism only brought them shame once Kyot was revealed. Some scholars have taken this to mean that Wolfram had faced criticism for his story's departures from Chrétien de Troyes, and had created a pseudo-source with a back story that would silence and mock slow-witted critics while amusing those who saw through it.As mentioned above, the diminishing number of scholars who believe Kyot was real tend to identify him with Guiot de Provins. The names Kyot and Guiot are cognate, but the historical poet was not from the southern French region of Provence, but the northern town of Provins, and none of Guiot's surviving works deal with the Holy Grail or suggest any thematic relation with Parzival. Some aspects of Parzival may hint at a source besides Wolfram's imagination and Chrétien, such as an implied knowledge of French literature and a reverence for the House of Anjou, but none of these obstacles are better explained as deriving from an authentic Kyot than from an extraordinary mind with broad interests. It is entirely possible, however, that Wolfram intended his character to be Guiot, and attached fictitious information to him, or else just used his name.Kyot appears as a companion of the titular protagonist in Umberto Eco's novel Baudolino, where he argues with Robert de Boron over the nature of the Grail. The character in the novel is a conflation of Kyot the Provençal with Guiot, being from Champagne.".
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- Kyot wikiPageRevisionID "597617903".
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Al-Andalus.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Anjou.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Arabic.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Arabic_language.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Baudolino.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Category:Arthurian_legend.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fictional_writers.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Category:Holy_Grail.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Category:Writers_of_Arthurian_literature.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Champagne_(historical_province).
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Champagne_(province).
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Chrétien_de_Troyes.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink France.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Guiot_de_Provins.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Holy_Grail.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink KYOT-FM.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Muslim.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Parzival.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Perceval,_the_Story_of_the_Grail.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Percival.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Provence.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Provins.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Robert_de_Boron.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Solomon.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Toledo,_Spain.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Umberto_Eco.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLink Wolfram_von_Eschenbach.
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kyot the Provençal".
- Kyot wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kyot".
- Kyot hasPhotoCollection Kyot.
- Kyot wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Citation_needed.
- Kyot subject Category:Arthurian_legend.
- Kyot subject Category:Fictional_writers.
- Kyot subject Category:Holy_Grail.
- Kyot subject Category:Writers_of_Arthurian_literature.
- Kyot hypernym Poet.
- Kyot type Article.
- Kyot type Person.
- Kyot type Writer.
- Kyot type Article.
- Kyot type Character.
- Kyot type Object.
- Kyot type Writer.
- Kyot comment "For the radio station in Phoenix, Arizona, see KYOT-FM.Kyot the Provençal was the French poet who supplied Wolfram von Eschenbach with the source for his poetic epic Parzival, according to Wolfram. Wolfram may have been referring to the northern French poet Guiot de Provins, but this identification has proven unsatisfactory.".
- Kyot label "Kyot".
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- Kyot sameAs Q6452086.
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- Kyot wasDerivedFrom Kyot?oldid=597617903.
- Kyot isPrimaryTopicOf Kyot.