Epic Litterature

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  Michelle SZKILNIK

  Jean de Saintré : une carrière chevaleresque au XVe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  Jehan de Saintré is a disconcerting romance, often described as a pastiche of Arthurian romance, presenting a nostalgic knight, a believer in outdated ideals. If, however, one compares Saintré's destiny to the destinies of heroes of chivalrous...

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  Jehan WAUQUELIN

  La belle Hélène de Constantinople : mise en prose d'une chanson de geste

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  La Belle Hélène de Constantinople by Jean Wauquelin is a “mise en prose” of a chanson de geste in verse of XIVth century of which a critical edition was published by Claude Roussel (Droz, 1995). The present edition of Wauquelin's work makes the...

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  Histoire de la reine Berthe et du roy Pepin : mise en prose d'une chanson de geste

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  The Histoire de la Reine Berthe et du Roy Pepin is an anonym prose version of the XVth century inspired from the famous epic poem composed around 1275 by Adenet le Roi, Berte aus grans piés. The story relates how Berthe, wife of Pépin le Bref and...

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  Jehan WAUQUELIN

  Les Faicts et les conquestes d'Alexandre le Grand

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  The prose Alexander novel of Jean Wauquelin, written in the middle of the XVth century for Philip the Good, retraces the best-known and fascinating episodes of the Macedonian hero’s life. Behind the beautiful description and the impressive portrayal...