
The article examines how Chrétien de Troyes’ Conte du Graal (Perceval) and Wace’s Roman de Brut structure their narratives in time and space, and how Chrétien draws upon Wace’s chronicle-poem tradition to inflect his romance with historical and geographic referents. The author argues that Chrétien not only reuses Wace’s Arthurian framework, but selectively reworks its spatial and temporal dimensions to foreground tensions between the hero’s personal quest and the dynamics of the Arthurian court, thus engaging in a reconfiguration of historical legibility, narrative authority, and the relationship between romance and chronicle.