The Old French Crusade Cycle: Le Chanson de Jérusalem
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Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Crusades |
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Author | : Carol Sweetenham |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2020-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317038738 |
The First Crusade was arguably one of the most significant events of the Middle Ages. It was the only event to generate its own epic cycle, the Old French Crusade Cycle. The central trilogy at the heart of the Cycle describes the Crusade from its beginnings to the climactic battle of Ascalon, comprising the Chanson d’Antioche, the Chanson des Chétifs and the Chanson de Jérusalem. This translation of the Chétifs and the Jérusalem accompanies and completes the translation of the Antioche and makes the trilogy available to English readers in its entirety for the first time. The value of the trilogy lies above all in the insight it gives us to medieval perceptions of the Crusade. The events are portrayed as part of a divine plan where even outcasts and captives can achieve salvation through Crusade. This in turn underlies the value of the Cycle as a recruiting and propaganda tool. The trilogy gives a window onto the chivalric preoccupations of thirteenth-century France, exploring concerns about status, heroism and defeat. It portrays the material realities of the era in vivid detail: the minutiae of combat, smoke-filled halls, feasts, prisons and more. And the two newly translated poems are highly entertaining as well, featuring a lubricious Saracen lady not in the first flush of youth, a dragon inhabited by a devil, marauding monkeys, miracles and much more. The historian will find little new about the Crusade itself, but abundant material on how it was perceived, portrayed and performed. The translation is accompanied by an introduction examining the origins of the two poems and their wider place in the cycle. It is supported by extensive footnotes, a comprehensive index of names and places and translations of the main variants.
Author | : Nigel Thorp |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 739 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Chansons de geste |
ISBN | : 9780817305314 |
When published in its entirety, the Cycle will comprise nine volumes. The text is presented in Old French, with commentary in English. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Jan A. Nelson |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-07 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780817399047 |
This complete set of the Old French crusade cycle includes La Naissance du Chevalier au Cygne, Le Chevalier au Cygne, La Fin d'Elias, Les Enfrances Godefroi, Le Retourde Cornumarant, La Chanson d'Antioche, Les Chetifs and La Chanson de Jerusalem.
Author | : Carol Sweetenham |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2016-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317038762 |
The Old-French Chanson d'Antioche has long intrigued historians and literary scholars. Unusually among epic poems, it follows closely a well documented historical event - the First Crusade - and appears to include substantial and genuine historical content. At one time it was believed to be based on an account by an eye-witness, 'Richard the Pilgrim'. Carol Sweetenham and Susan Edgington have combined forces to investigate such claims, and their findings are set out in a comprehensive introduction which, firstly, examines the textual history of the poem from its possible oral beginnings through several re-workings to its present form, achieved early in the thirteenth century. A second chapter assesses the Chanson's value as a source for the crusade, and a third considers its status as a literary text. A complete prose translation follows, the first in English and based on the definitive edition. The Chanson is revealed as a lively narrative, with tales of chivalry, villainy, and even episodes of humour. There are extensive footnotes to the translation, and an appendix provides supplementary material from a different manuscript tradition. There is also a cast list of heroes and villains with biographical information for the 'real' ones and literary analogues for the fictional characters. The Chanson d'Antioche can now be read for enjoyment, and for a whole new perspective on crusading in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
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Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Crusades |
ISBN | : 9780817301347 |
Author | : Jan Nelson |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 886 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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La Chanson d'Antioche is the final volume to appear in the Old French Crusade Cycle, a series published by The University of Alabama Press. The series represents a large body of epic poetry important for an understanding of the phenomenon of cyclical composition and for a clarification of the relationship between the literary genres of epic and romance. Composed in Old French, the cycle, which dates from the 13th century in its edited form, is both history and fiction, folklore and reality; its sources are both oral and classical, and its influence can be seen in translations and versions in Spanish, English, Dutch, and German. The cycle is valuable to a wide range of fields, including the literatures of Old French, Old Spanish, Medieval German, Middle English, as well as folklore, history, and linguistics. La Chanson d'Antioche, along with La Chanson de Jerusalem, forms the quasi-historical nucleus of the entire Old French Crusade Cycle, which focuses on the fictional life of the hero Godfrey of Bouillon. The cycle recounts Godfrey's birth and childhood, his ancestral roots, his maturation to adulthood, his experiences in the First Crusade, and the confrontation between the crusad
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Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Crusades |
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Author | : Peter R. Grillo |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 1064 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780817307615 |
The eighth volume in the monumental series The Old French Crusade Cycle, The Jerusalem Continuations recounts the legendary and semi-historical events in the Holy Land after the death of Godfrey, leader of the First Crusade, and continuing up to the arrival of Salah ed-Din. Published in the original old French text, the project began in 1965 and will be completed with three forthcoming volumes. The series will put into one standard format the entire collection of text that tells the story of the First Crusade--texts that are dispersed among 11 manuscripts written during the 13th-15th centuries. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Nigel Thorp |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Chansons de geste |
ISBN | : 9780817305314 |
When published in its entirety, the Cycle will comprise nine volumes. The text is presented in Old French, with commentary in English. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR