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Aiol
''Aiol and Mirabel'' is an Old French chanson de geste. Originating probably in the late twelfth century, the oldest copy in Old French dates from circa 1280.''Bibliothèque nationale de France'', archives et manuscrits, Français 25516consult online. It was translated into Middle Dutch, Italian, and Spanish. The narrative recounts the adventures of the young knight Aiol who attempts to restore his father's fiefdom, and along the way marries a Saracen princess. The poem may have been performed in 1212 at the court of Philip II of France, on the occasion of a royal wedding. Plot Aiol is a young knight whose father, Elis, lost his lands and his reputation because of the schemes of a traitor named Makaire de Lausanne. He is raised in a forest and has received only a rudimentary education in chivalry. Dressed in the rusty armor of his father, goes to the court of Louis the Pious to restore his father's good name and have his fiefdom returned to him. He is ridiculed at Louis's court i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BnF Français 25516
BnF Français 25516 is a late-13th centuryOn Gallica, under 'detailed information', the manuscript date is given as 1275-90. Se'i' tabon left-hand side. illuminated manuscript held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Content The quarto manuscript has 209 folios, with Old French text written in two columns in a small 13th-c hand. It is heavily illuminated, and the illuminations are accompanied by explanatory rubrics. Large initials are found at the beginnings of chapters and other significant passages; the usual small initials are done alternately in red and blue.Förster 1. It contains four romances: # ''Bevis of Hampton'' (1–75); 22 miniatures # '' Elie de Saint Gille'' (76–95); 6 miniatures # ''Aiol and Mirabel'' (96–173); 11 miniatures # ''Robert the Devil'' (174–209); 11 miniatures Notes Bibliography * Gallery File:Miniature, Beuve de Hanton, ms. 25516 fr. of the BnF, fol. 1v.png, ''Bevis of Hampton'',fol. 1v. File:Miniature and rubric from Elie de Saint-Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elie De Saint Gille
''Elie de Saint Gille'' (''Élie de Saint-Gilles'' in modern editions; ''Elie'' and ''Elye'' in the manuscript; ''Elye of Saint-Gilles'' in the Hartman and Malicote translation) is a 12th-century ''chanson de geste''. on ''Archives de littérature du moyen âge''. Laurent Brun, last updated April 26, 2009. on ''Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français''. Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. It is preserved in a single manuscript, . With '' |
Gaston Raynaud
Gaston Raynaud (14 April 1850, Paris – 28 July 1911, Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French philologist and librarian .Lelong EugèneGaston Raynaud (1850-1911) In: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes. 1911, tome 72. pp. 427-436. Biography Raynaud entered the École Nationale des Chartes in 1870. In 1875, he graduated as archivist-paleographer. The subject of his thesis was the study of the Picard dialect in Ponthieu in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This work was favorably viewed by his advisors Natalis de Wailly and Paul Meyer, evaluating it as an excellent analysis of phonetic phenomena and grammatical rules. Published the following year in the ''Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes'', the study on the dialect of Ponthieu earned Raynaud the fourth mention in the ''Antiquities of France'' competition at the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. The same year saw the related works of Léon Clédat's on Bertran de Born and of Jacques Normand on a song of gesture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chansons De Geste
The ''chanson de geste'' (, from Latin 'deeds, actions accomplished') is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature. The earliest known poems of this genre date from the late 11th and early 12th centuries, shortly before the emergence of the lyric poetry of the troubadours and trouvères, and the earliest verse romances. They reached their highest point of acceptance in the period 1150–1250.Hasenohr, 242. Composed in verse, these narrative poems of moderate length (averaging 4000 lines) were originally sung, or (later) recited, by minstrels or jongleurs. More than one hundred ''chansons de geste'' have survived in approximately three hundred manuscripts''La Chanson de Roland,'' 12. that date from the 12th to the 15th century. Origins Since the 19th century, much critical debate has centered on the origins of the ''chansons de geste'', and particularly on explaining the length of time between the composition of the ''chansons'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12th Century In Literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in the 12th century. The 12th century in Western Europe saw an increase in the production of Latin texts and a proliferation of literate clerics from the multiplying cathedral schools. At the same time, vernacular literatures ranging from Provençal to Icelandic embodied in lyric and romance the values and worldview of an increasingly self-conscious and prosperous courtly aristocracy. These two trends contributed to a sweeping revival of letters with a lasting influence on the development of literature in the following centuries. Events *1104: September 3 – St. Cuthbert is reburied in Durham Cathedral (England) and the St. Cuthbert Gospel of St. John removed from his tomb. *1170: Poet, politician and historian Lu You (陸游) travels on the Grand Canal (China) from Shaoxing to the river Yangtze, recording his progress in a diary. *Before 1173: Copenhagen Psalter produced in northern England *1170: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prise D'Orange
''Prise d'Orange'' (literally "Taking of Orange"; also translated "The Capture of Orange" and "The Conquest of Orange") is a mid- 12th century ''chanson de geste'' written in Old French. Its fictional story follows the hero Guillaume as he captures the walled city of Orange from Saracens and marries Orable, its queen. Other characters include Arragon, the king of Orange, and Tibaut, Orable's erstwhile husband and Arragon's father. The anonymously written poem, part of a larger cycle about Guillaume called ''La Geste de Garin de Monglane'', consists of 1,888 decasyllable verses in laisses. It combines motifs of courtly love with an epic story of military conquest. The narrative is humorous and parodies the tropes of epic poetry. The surviving text of ''Prise'' was probably based on an earlier version, composed at the beginning of the 12th century, which emphasized war over love and contained a section called ''Siège d'Orange'' about Tibaut's military campaign to recapture Ora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Da Barberino
Andrea Mangiabotti,Geneviève Hasenohr and Michel Zink, eds. ''Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: Le Moyen Age''. Collection: La Pochothèque. (Paris: Fayard, 1992. ), pp. 62–63. called Andrea da Barberino ( 1370–1431''The Cambridge History of Italian Literature'', Peter Brand and Lino Pertile, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 168.) was an Italian writer and ''cantastorie'' ("storyteller")Ludovico Ariosto, ''Orlando Furioso'', translated with an introduction by Barbara Reynolds (London: Penguin Books, 1975), Part I, Introduction, p. 58. of the Quattrocento Renaissance. He was born in Barberino Val d'Elsa, near Florence and lived in Florence. He is principally known for his prose romance epic ''Il Guerrin Meschino'', his ''I Reali di Francia'' ("The Royal House of France"), a prose compilation (in the form of a chronicle) of the Matter of France epic material concerning Charlemagne and Roland (''Orlandino'') from various legends and chansons de g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendelin Förster
Wendelin Förster (often written as Foerster; 10 February 1844 – 18 May 1915) was an Austrian philologist and Romance scholar. Biography Förster was born in Wildschütz in Silesia (present day Vlčice, Czech Republic) and educated in Vienna, where he obtained his doctorate in 1872 as a student of Johannes Vahlen. Following a study trip to Paris, he received his habilitation in Vienna with a dissertation involving Romance philology. In 1874 he became an associate professor at the University of Prague, and two years later was named a full professor at the University of Bonn as successor to Friedrich Christian Diez. One of his noteworthy achievements was the definite establishment of the Breton transmission of the Arthurian legend. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanson De Geste
The ''chanson de geste'' (, from Latin 'deeds, actions accomplished') is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature. The earliest known poems of this genre date from the late 11th and early 12th centuries, shortly before the emergence of the lyric poetry of the troubadours and trouvères, and the earliest verse romances. They reached their highest point of acceptance in the period 1150–1250.Hasenohr, 242. Composed in verse, these narrative poems of moderate length (averaging 4000 lines) were originally sung, or (later) recited, by minstrels or jongleurs. More than one hundred ''chansons de geste'' have survived in approximately three hundred manuscripts''La Chanson de Roland,'' 12. that date from the 12th to the 15th century. Origins Since the 19th century, much critical debate has centered on the origins of the ''chansons de geste'', and particularly on explaining the length of time between the composition of the ''chansons'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Normand
Jacques Clary Jean Normand (25 November 1848, in Paris – 28 May 1931, in Paris) was a French poet, playwright and writer.The New international year book 1932 " Normand. Jacques Clary Jean. French dramatist, poet, and novelist, died May 28, 1931. in Paris where he was born Nov. 25, 1848. In 1898 he collaborated with Guy de Maupassant in writing Musette." Plays * Le Troisième larron, 1874, play in 1 act, set to music by Jules Massenet, on the repertoire of the Théâtre de l'Odéon 1875 * L'Amiral, 1880, comédie en deux actes, Théâtre du Gymnase 1880 and Théâtre Français 1895 * Les Petits cadeaux, comédie en un acte, Théâtre du Gymnase * Les Vieux amis, comédie en trois actes, Théâtre de l'Odéon * La Douceur de croire, pièce en trois actes, Théâtre Français, 8 July 1899 In collaboration with Arthur Delavigne * Blakson père et fils, comédie en quatre actes, Théâtre de l'Odéon * Les petites marmites, comédie en trois actes, Théâtre du Gymnase * Voil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doon De Mayence
Doon de Mayence also known as Doolin de Maience, Doon de Maience or Doolin de Mayence was a fictional hero of the Old French ''chansons de geste'', who gives his name to the third cycle of the Charlemagne romances dealing with the feudal revolts. There is no single unifying theme in the ''geste'' of Doon de Mayence. The rebellious barons are connected by the poets with Doon by fictitious genealogical ties and all are represented as opposing Charlemagne, although their adventures—insofar as they possess a historical basis—generally occur before (or after) his reign. The general insolence of their attitude to the sovereign suggests that Charlemagne is here only a pseudonym for his weaker successors. The tradition of a traitorous family of Mayence (Mainz), which was developed in Italy into a series of stories about criminals, appeared later than the Carolingian cycle. A contributor to the Chronicle of Fredegar states (iv. 87) that the army of Sigebert was betrayed from withi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Chanson De Gaufrey
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure 8'' (album) * ''L.A.'' (EP), by Teddy Thompson * ''L.A. (Light Album)'', a Beach Boys album * "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973 * The La's, an English rock band * L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer * Yung L.A., a rapper * Lady A, an American country music trio * "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007 * "La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River Other media * l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings * La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan) * ''Lá'', later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper * La7, an Italian television channel * LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher * Liber Annuus, academic journal Business, organizations, and government agencies * L.A. Screenings, a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
