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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Chansons de Geste"”.
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Chansons de geste in Deutschland
Immer wieder ist die ästhetische Anspruchslosigkeit der spätmittelalterlichen Adaptationen mittelalterlicher Erzählgenres hervorgehoben worden. In geradezu kontingenter Fülle präsentierten sie einen ausufernden Reigen von Ereignissen, der ganz auf das Vergnügen des Rezipienten an Spannung, Exotik, …
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Time of the Telling: Affective Temporalities in the Chansons de geste
… Old French and Old Occitan epic poems, called <i>chansons de geste</i>, have long been held up as a celebration of the medieval warrior elite. Although they build a world of great deeds and noble families, the epics are nonetheless a poetry of violence whose outlook challenges prescriptive notions …
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Picture-books, Politics & Pedagogy: Illustrating Histories for a Young Reader, 1338-40 (British Library, Egerton MS 3028)
… three illustrated Anglo- Norman poems: the Roman de Brut (Wace’s translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain) and two Fierabras narratives, set in the age of Charlemagne. The former is continued to the years 1338-40 and its conclusion is partisan, celebrating Edward II …