Author: William CalinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chansons de geste
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Old French Epic of Revolt
Author: William CalinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chansons de geste
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The old French epic of revolt
Author: William C. CalinThe old French epic of revolt
Author: William C. CalinThe Old French epic
Author: A. HindleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
(Peeters 1983)
Heroes of the French Epic
Author: Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843831471
Category : Chansons de geste
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
"The translations preserve the dynamic, musical qualities of their oral-based originals, and are intended for both general and more specialised readers. Introductions and Select Bibliographies accompany each poem."--Jacket.
The Epic Hero
Author: Dean A. MillerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080187792X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title From Odysseus to Aeneas, from Beowulf to King Arthur, from the Mahâbhârata to the Ossetian "Nart" tales, epic heroes and their stories have symbolized the power of the human imagination. Drawing on diverse disciplines including classics, anthropology, psychology, and literary studies, this product of twenty years' scholarship provides a detailed typology of the hero in Western myth: birth, parentage, familial ties, sexuality, character, deeds, death, and afterlife. Dean A. Miller examines the place of the hero in the physical world (wilderness, castle, prison cell) and in society (among monarchs, fools, shamans, rivals, and gods). He looks at the hero in battle and quest; at his political status; and at his relationship to established religion. The book spans Western epic traditions, including Greek, Roman, Nordic, and Celtic, as well as the Indian and Persian legacies. A large section of the book also examines the figures who modify or accompany the hero: partners, helpers (animals and sometimes monsters), foes, foils, and even antitypes. The Epic Hero provides a comprehensive and provocative guide to epic heroes, and to the richly imaginative tales they inhabit.
Damedieus
Author: J.-L. Roland BélangerPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600035446
Category : Chansons de geste
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Rebel Barons
Author: Luke SunderlandPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019109272X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Ambivalence towards kings, and other sovereign powers, is deep-seated in medieval culture: sovereigns might provide justice, but were always potential tyrants, who usurped power and 'stole' through taxation. Rebel Barons writes the history of this ambivalence, which was especially acute in England, France, and Italy in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, when the modern ideology of sovereignty, arguing for monopolies on justice and the legitimate use of violence, was developed. Sovereign powers asserted themselves militarily and economically provoking complex phenomena of resistance by aristocrats. This volume argues that the chansons de geste, the key genre for disseminating models of violent noble opposition to sovereigns, offer a powerful way of understanding acts of resistance. Traditionally seen as France's epic literary monuments - the Chanson de Roland is often presented as foundational of French literature - chansons de geste in fact come from areas antagonistic to France, such as Burgundy, England, Flanders, Occitania, and Italy, where they were reworked repeatedly from the twelfth century to the fifteenth and recast into prose and chronicle forms. Rebel baron narratives were the principal vehicle for aristocratic concerns about tyranny, for models of violent opposition to sovereigns and for fantasies of escape from the Carolingian world via crusade and Oriental adventures. Rebel Barons reads this corpus across its full range of historical and geographical relevance, and through changes in form, as well as placing it in dialogue with medieval political theory, to bring out the contributions of literary texts to political debates. Revealing the widespread and long-lived importance of these anti-royalist works supporting regional aristocratic rights to feud and revolt, Rebel Barons reshapes our knowledge of reactions to changing political realities at a crux period in European history.
Once There Were Two True Friends, Or, Idealized Male Friendship in French Narrative from the Middle Ages Through the Enlightenment
Author: Edward Joe JohnsonPublisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9781883479428
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Raoul de Cambrai
Author: Sarah KayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198158684
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Raoul de Cambrai is one of the most violent and passionate Old French poems of the cycle of barons in revolt. The three relations that structure medieval society - companionship, feudalism, and the family - are here seen in crisis. Conflicts of interest, and the competition for resources,result in social disintegration, wholesale loss of life, and the collapse of authority. The poem, probably composed around the turn of the thirteenth century, results from successive reworkings that weave a many-layered commentary on its own moral and political themes. This first edition for over ahundred years draws on important manuscript material unknown to the text's previous editors. It is prefaced by a scholarly introduction and accompanied by an annotated translation into English prose.