Description
Book SynopsisThe collection of essays in
Romance Epic expertly examines the Romance epic as a genre, delving into its ever-changing period, audience, and region. The essays span across a wide range of different topics: the specificity of the Romance epic and how well it fits into the genre of epic at all, the structure of the
chansons de geste, school influences on the Old French, the reconstruction of lost
chansons de geste, the evolution of the genre through centuries, and topics specific to certain works, such as problems in the
Chanson de Roland and the
El Cantar de Mio Cid.
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction by Hans-Erich Keller Towards the Morphology of the Romance Epic by Ruth House Webber Textes medievaux et tradition: la chanson de geste est-elle une epopee? by William Calin Measuring Units of Poetic Discourse: Analogies between Laisse and Verse in the chanson de geste by Edward A. Heinemann A l'altre feiz: Narrative and Structural Patterns in the Chanson de Guillaume by Barbara Schurfranz Moorman On Structuring Baudouin de Sebourc by Larry S. Crist Au commencement etait l'ecole (de theologie): A New Paradigm for the Study of the Old French Epic by J. L. Roland Belanger L'hegemonie normande dans la Chanson de Roland et les Gesta Tancredi: De la Neustrie a la chretiente, ou Turold est-il nationaliste? by Jean Charles Payen Forest and Voyage: Signs of Sententia in the Entree d'Espagne by Nancy Bradley-Cromey Reconstructing the Lost Chanson de Basin: Was it a Couronnement de Charlemagne? by Constance B. Hieatt In Search of the Lost Epics of the Lower Rhone Valley by Alice M. Colby-Hall The Evolution of the Matter of Fierabras: Present State of Research by Andre de Mandach Le developpement de la Geste de Montauban en France jusqu'a la fin du moyen age by Francois Suard Ganelon's Defense by Emanuel J. Mickel Jr. Three Old French Magicians: Maugis, Basin, and Auberon by William W. Kibler Saracen Heroes in Adenet le Roi by Peter S. Noble On the Saracens in Early Italian Chivalric Literature by Antonio Franceschetti La imagen del rey en el Cantar de Mio Cid by Aristobulo Pardo The Economy of Mio Cid by Miguel Garci-Gomez Contributors
