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Bacon In The Fabliaux
In ''fabliaux'', bacon is one of the most commonly consumed foodstuffs, alongside capons and geese, cakes, bread, and wine. ''Du provost a l'aumuche'' In some tales, bacon, and similarly pork and lard, are associated with corrupt clergymen, as symbolisms for gluttony, greed, and lust. For example, in ''Du provost d l'aumuche'' a provost hides some bacon that he has stolen from a feast prepared for his master under his hat (the " aumuche" of the title, a large fur hat) but is caught and beaten after the bacon fat, melted by a nearby fire, starts to drip down his head. This parallels Galbert of Bruges's tale of the ''Murder of Charles the Good''. ''Du provost a l'aumuche'' is 132 lines long, and tells the tale of a rich knight who having left his provost, a "low fellow and a rascal" named Gervais, in charge when he went on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, returns home and sends word ahead to the provost to have a feast prepared. The provost arrives at the feast early, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabliaux
A ''fabliau'' (; plural ''fabliaux'') is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France between c. 1150 and 1400. They are generally characterized by sexual and scatological obscenity, and by a set of contrary attitudes—contrary to the church and to the nobility. Several of them were reworked by Giovanni Boccaccio for the ''Decameron'' and by Geoffrey Chaucer for his ''Canterbury Tales''. Some 150 French ''fabliaux'' are extant, the number depending on how narrowly ''fabliau'' is defined. According to R. Howard Bloch, ''fabliaux'' are the first expression of literary realism in Europe. Some nineteenth-century scholars, most notably Gaston Paris, argue that ''fabliaux'' originally came from the Orient and were brought to the West by returning crusaders. History and definition of the genre The ''fabliau'' is defined as a short narrative in (usually octosyllabic) verse, between 300 and 400 lines long,Cuddon 301. its content often comic or satiric.Abrams 63 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |