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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Old French"”.
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Sorcery and Sorcerers in the Old French Epic
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Old French borrowings in "The Owl and the Nightingale"
Old French Borrowings in "The Owl and the Nightingale" ascertains the quantity and nature of Old French words present in this thirteenth-century Middle English poem. Patterns of borrowing, whether source-based or subject-based, are identified and problematic words, such as cognates, are …
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A History of Studies of the Old French William Cycle
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Language Change and Infinitival Complements in Old French (Syntax, Historical, Romance)
… of infinitival complement constructions in Old French which differ syntactically from their Modern French parallels. The analysis is formulated in the terms of the Government and Binding framework and it has the aim both of accounting for the constructions in question on the basis of the …
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Touching the hero: bodies, boundaries and blood in the Old French Cycle des Narbonnais
The poems of the Old French Cycle des Narbonnais are highly concerned with touch, paying close attention to who touches whom first in greetings, who is authorised to perform certain symbolic touches and, reading violence as a radical version of touch, whose touch is victorious in battle. Modern …
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"The Old Spanish ""isomberta"" And The Old French ""beatris"" Versions Of The Swan Knight Legend"
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Dialogue and dialectic in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Occitan and old French courtly lyric and narrative
… subject in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Old French and Occitan lyric and narrative. It considers how debate and dialogue are informed by dialectic, which acts as a structural and thematic frame and gives courtly debate its distinctive oppositional tone. I argue that dialectic underpins …
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A Grammar of the Idiom: Theory Development and Its Application to Old French and Old West Germanic
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'La Prise D'orange,' an Old French Chanson De Geste Edited From the Manuscript of Boulonge-Sur-Mer
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The 'Charroi De Nimes': An Old French Chanson De Geste Edited From the Manuscript of Boulogne-Sur-Mer
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:26:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0007837.pdf: 6356383 bytes, checksum: 8729d47612d4efd800267de4e3121948 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1954
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Capital, Value, and Exchange in the Old Occitan and Old French Tenson (Including the Partimen and the Jeu-Parti)
… examines the genre of lyric debate poetry in Old Occitan and Old French known as the tenson. It evaluates the creation, performance, and diffusion of tensons from the perspective of capital--cultural, social, and economic capital. It views tensons as negotiations between poets for various …
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A study of the middle Dutch poem, Van den vos Reynaerde and its sources in the branches of the old French Roman de Renard
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1917. ; Includes bibliographical references.
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"Redefining Gender Through the Arena of the Male Body: The Reception of Thomas's Tristan in the Old French ""Le Chevalier De La Charette"" and the Old Icelandic ""Saga Af Tristram Ok Isodd"
… de Troyes' Le Chevalier de la Charette and the Old Icelandic Saga af Tristram ok Isodd. Both of these texts are responses to the Old French Tristan romance and both deny the sexual ambiguity of the Tristan figure by reconfiguring the equation of male body and masculinity that is typical of …
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"""Le Cort Mantel"" and ""Mottuls Saga"": A literary comparison"
This dissertation is a literary comparison of the Old French Le cort mantel, also entitled Le mantel mautaillie, and Mottuls saga, an adaptation into Old Norse made by an unknown writer working for King Hakon (1217-1263).
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The Roman de la rose : textual, codicological and iconographical aspects of MS. Grey 4c12
… study involves an examination of one particular Old French illuminated secular manuscript, nanlely MS Grey 4 c 12, a fourteenth century copy of the poem Le Roman de la Rose. It attempts to understand the relationship between its illumination and the written text and to describe the unique …
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Magical Artifice and Artificial History in the 'Roman de Perceforest'
… artifice, which have intrigued scholars of Old French for many decades. It is also a peculiarly overt project of 'artificial' history, filling in a lacuna of Arthurian genealogy: King Perceforest's dynasty in pagan Britain. Under the umbrella of 'artifice', this thesis seeks to understand …
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