Arthur after Arthur, Don Quichote after Quichote: "Artus de Bretagne" (c. 1300): romance of chivalry or romance of 'clergie' ?

Artus de Bretagne (c.1300) is a neo-Arthurian romance, which renews the Arthurian subject by transposing it to a new
setting (in time and in space). Artus gives an essential place to Estienne, the clerk, who competes with Artus the Knight:
one could define Artus as a “romance of clergy”. Artus was read variously, as an Arthurian romance, as a prequel of
romances dealing with Alexander the Great, as a chivalric romance. Beyond these differing modes of reception, the
romance is characterized by a poetics which is particular, and very original; it could not, however, entirely escape the
dominant modes of chivalric romance.