From Chanson de Geste to Epic Chronicle: Medieval Occitan Poetry of War

ISBN-13: 9781138493223 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 236 str.

Gerard Gouiran; Linda M. Paterson

Opis

In this collection of essays Gérard Gouiran, one of the world's leading and much-loved scholars of medieval Occitan literature, examines this literature from a primarily historical perspective. The book will be of interest to all those curious about this hitherto little-known subject.

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Part 1: Women and Saracens in the Occitan chansons de geste; 1. Silhouettes of women in the Occitan and Old French Roland texts; 2. Belauda’s garden; 3. Aude, Iphigenia, Polyxena; 4. So dis la donna: ‘Oy, bel sira Rollan, mos maritz es en malaür lo gran’: Saracens and the Saracen woman in Rollan a Saragossa; 5. The Saracen from the depths of Hell to the gates of salvation; 6. Between Saracens and Christians, or the decapitated horse; Part 2: Aspects of war in Occitan chansons de geste and lyric poetry; 7. Per las lurs armas devon tostemps cantier: intertextuality effects between Ronsasvals and certain lyric planhz; 8. The first appearance of the herald in literature and the early war songs of Bertran de Born; Part 3: The Albigensian Crusade; 9. Drama queen? Worse: a jongleur! – or how to discredit an opponent: the representation of Bishop Fulk of Toulouse, alias Folquet de Marseille, by the anonymous author of the Song of the Albigensian Crusade; 10. The French against Montfort? The war councils held by Simon de Montfort in the second part of the Song of the Albigensian Crusade; 11. The good use of rebellion; 12. The Toulousains cry ‘Toulouse!’, the Gascons ‘Comminges!’ … The Comminges parallels in the Song of the Albigensian Crusade; 13. The troubadour and the lord: history as viewed by the anonymous author of the Song of the Albigensian Crusade; 14. Las Novas del heretje, or who benefits from propaganda?