Chansons De Geste
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I carri di Nîmes-Le Charroi di Nîmes, chanson de geste del XII° secolo , a cura di Nicolò Pasero , Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2020 (collana "Gli Orsatti. Testi per un altro Medioevo", n° 48) . Il Charroi de Nîmes è una delle... more
This paper reworks a chapter of my PhD thesis where I discussed some emergences of carnival fights in Moniage Guillaume long (MGl); the imagery was linked to ritual anthropogenetic practices, finally refracted in “archetypal” plots. Here,... more
Rather than being a somewhat inept literary work, as it is sometimes thought to be, 'La Chanson de Willame' is rather a cohesive expression of the same strong orally-based epic tradition that produced 'La Chanson de Roland' and other... more
Dating texts is one of the most important challenges for research into literary history. Only through a chronological ranking of texts, one can gain insight into the development of literature through time. Dating Middle Dutch chivalric... more
L'extrait qu'on va analyser est tiré par Le Couronnement de Louis, chanson qui appartient au Cycle de Guillaume d'Orange, l'un des cycles les plus importants et célèbres de la littérature médiévale, datant du XII e siècle. Il s'agit d'un... more
This paper, a sequel to the one published in Vertigo 1-2/2018, presents a Slovak translation of the famous "Ubi sunt?" scene from the second part of La Chanson de Guillaume. Almost each stanza (laisse) is accompanied by extensive... more
The transfer of Saracen arms into Frankish ownership is a leitmotif of many chansons de geste, but one whose significance for inter-imperial translation or translatio imperii has yet to be elucidated. In this essay, I focus on the Chanson... more
The writing, reading and reception of a crusade-story in medieval Flanders, Norway, and Iceland. This book relates a story about the writing, reading, and reception of one text in three different cultural and political contexts across... more
Histories of the Crusades have moved away from characterising the conflict as a civilisational clash between Christianity and Islam, highlighting instead the porousness of religious and geopolitical boundaries in Iberia and the Levant.... more
This is a conference paper I presented at The Animal/Human Bond in Oxford Summer 2014, excerpted from a larger work. Now available in "Who's Talking Now? Multispecies Relations from Humans and Animals Point of View" at... more
L’elaborato ha come obiettivo l’analisi dei toponimi calabresi presenti nella Chanson d’Aspremont, una chanson de geste risalente al XII secolo scritta in francese antico. Quest’opera fu scritta e recitata ai soldati di Riccardo Cuor di... more
The halo of mystery that surrounds the knight's sword in the Middle Ages corresponds to an ancient mythology echoed in the chansons de geste, Arthurian novels and Scandinavian sagas, as well as in iconography and archaeology. The sword is... more
Helvise of Pithivers : an updated study about a neustrian aristocratic character (prosopography, castellology, romanesque collegiate church, chanson de geste, French political context / end of tenth century - early eleventh century,... more
Il s'agit de la table des matières des trois volumes de ma thèse soutenue le 24 juin 2016 à l'Université d'Aix-Marseille.
RESUMEN: El Cantar de mio Cid, una de las principales obras del canon literario español, es también una de las más importantes en el ámbito de la poesía épica medieval por sus valores estéticos, su influencia histórica y su fundamental... more
Part of the geste du roi, the Chanson d'Otinel had not been the subject of an edition since the pioneer work of F. Guessard and H. Michelant in 1858. Starting with the tangible objects that manuscripts are, and proceeding to the study of... more
Several medieval texts tell the story of an imaginary voyage of Charlemagne to Jerusalem and Constantinople. Among them, the Latin Descriptio qualiter... (11th-12th century) contains several odd features, analyzed in the present paper:... more
ITALIANO - Attraverso la presentazione e l’analisi – ovviamente parziali e circoscritte ad alcuni passi-campione, opportunamente scelti – di quattro testi variamente afferenti alla produzione epica di età normanna, in volgare e in latino,... more
Le fragment de Bruxelles, découvert au XIX e siècle, connu généralement sous le titre Gormont et Isembart, relate une bataille entre un roi païen, Gormont, secondé par un renégat, Isembart, et une armée franque sous le commandement d'un... more
in Élisabeth Ridel (dir.), "Les Vikings dans l'empire franc. Impact, héritage, imaginaire", catalogue d'exposition, 2014, Bayeux, Orep Éditions, p. 104-108.
The article aims to outline aspects, features and functions of a cluster of characters in some chansons de geste, in particular Yon and Gaifier, both designated often as rulers of Aquitaine (or Gascony). Around these characters, we can... more
Proceedings of the Fourth International Saga Conference (Műnchen, 1979). The paper looks at sources and background to Mágus saga.
Il ms. Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Fr. Z 13 (siglato V13 dagli specialisti) conserva, acefala e in attestazione unica, la Geste Francor, opera di un ignoto rimatore veneto attivo intorno agli anni Trenta-Quaranta del XIV... more