Download or read book Le Chevalier Au Cygne and La Fin D Elias written by Jan Nelson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La Geste Du Chevalier Au Cygne written by Berthault de Villebresmes and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berthault de Villbresmes, a prominent lawyer and adviser to Charles d'Orleans, completed this prose version of the first three branches of The Old French Crusade Cycle some time between 1465 and 1473. He undertook his "compendieuse translacion" of the Swan Knight story at the request of Charle's widow, Marie de Cleves. Daughter of Lamarck, Marie had a particular interest in this matter for the house of Cleves had claimed descent from Helias, the fabulous grandfather of Godfroy of Bouillon some time after the extinction of the house of Bouillon-Boulogne. It is tis particular interest that explains why Berthault's adaptation of the Old French epic matter stops short of the account of the Crusade proper even though the First Crusade continued at the time to be a powerful stimulus to the literary imagination.Berthault de Villebresmes's La Geste du Chevalier au Cygne will be especially welcome to all concerned with the recovery and study of late medieval literature and with the linguistic analysis of Middle French. The Old French Crusade Cycle consists of a series of nine volumes of epic poems that together form a cycle concerningnthe First Crusade and the legendary events associated with Godefori de Buillon. See index for a listing of the volumes published thus far in the series.

Download or read book La Naissance Du Chevalier Au Cygne written by Jan Nelson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La Geste de Chevalier Au Cygne written by Berthault de Villebresmes and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Le Chevalier Au Cygne and La Fin D Elias written by Jan Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La Naissance Du Chevalier Au Cygne Ou Les Enfants Chang s En Cygnes written by Henry Alfred Todd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from La Naissance Du Chevalier Au Cygne, Ou Les Enfants Changés En Cygnes: French Poem of the Xiith Century, Published for the First Time, Together With an Inedited Prose Version, From the Mss. Of the National and Arsenal Libraries at Paris; With Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary Of the moral tales thus narrated, our story of the Swan children is the seventh; but since it is not one of those borrowed from the Oriental 'sintipas, ' where are we to look for the traces of its origin? In form, in contents, in general tone, it fits in admirably with the Oriental setting in which it is found imbedded, but no Eastern prototype of the tale has thus far been pointed out. On the other hand, the legend has been believed to belong peculiarly to the region of Lorraine (lohengrin being in fact, a variation of the German Lofhringen), and this view is supported by M. Gaston Paris, who, in the article already referred to, presents as a reason for his opinion the consideration that the story of the Swans is more simply and logically narrated than the other tales of the collection, a fact which would seem to show that it had not been subject to the many alterations inci dental to a series of migrations. It may also be borne in mind that the swan figures somewhat conspicuously in the mythology of the Northern peoples, the Valkyrias, who may be called the fays of the Scandinavians, appearing in the day-time in the form of swans, and one of their number bearing the name of Svanhvila, 'swan-white.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Old French Crusade Cycle written by Jan A. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La naissance du Chevalier au Cygne ou Les enfants chang s en cygnes written by Henry Alfred Todd and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La Chanson Du Chevalier Au Cygne written by Johannes Sachse and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La Naissance Du Chevalier Au Cygne Ou Les Enfants Chang s En Cygnes French Poem of the Xiith Century written by Henry Alfred Todd and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todd's analysis of the French poem 'Le Chevalier au Cygne' (The Knight of the Swan), written in the 12th century, explores the themes of transformation and redemption as seen through the story of a group of siblings who are cursed to live as swans and the knight who helps to break the spell. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature written by George Watson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Knight the Cross and the Song written by Stefan Vander Elst and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Knight, the Cross, and the Song offers a new perspective on the driving forces of crusading in the period 1100-1400. Although religious devotion has long been identified as the primary motivation of those who took the cross, Stefan Vander Elst argues that it was by no means the only focus of the texts written to convince the warriors of Western Christianity to participate in the holy war. Vander Elst examines how, across three centuries, historiographical works that served as exhortations for the Crusade sought specifically to appeal to aristocratic interests beyond piety. They did so by appropriating the formal and thematic characteristics of literary genres favored by the knightly class, the chansons de geste and chivalric romance. By using the structure, commonplaces, and traditions of chivalric literature, propagandists associated the Crusade with the decidedly secular matters to which arms-bearers were drawn. This allowed them to introduce the mutual obligation between lord and vassal, family honor, the thirst for adventure, and even the desire for women as parallel and complementary motivations for Crusade, making chivalric and literary concerns an indelible part of the ideology and practice of holy war. Examining English, Latin, French, and German texts, ranging from the twelfth-century Gesta Francorum and Chanson d'Antioche to the fourteenth-century Krônike von Prûzinlant and La Prise d'Alixandre, The Knight, the Cross, and the Song traces the historical development and geographical spread of this innovative use of secular chivalric fiction both to shape the memory and interpretation of past events and to ensure the continuation of the holy war.

Download or read book The Knight the Cross and the Song written by Stefan Vander Elst and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining English, Latin, French, and German texts, The Knight, the Cross, and the Song traces the role of secular chivalric literature in shaping Crusade propaganda across three centuries.

Download or read book Godefroi de Buillon written by Jan Boyd Roberts and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godefroi de Buillon is an edition of folios 1 through 60 of Paris, Biblioth?que Nationale, fonds fran?ais 781, a prose version of the Old French Crusade Cycle dating from the close of the 13th century. It includes the Beatrix version of the Naissance du Chevalier au Cygne, Le Chevalier au Cygne, Les Enfances Godefroi, La Chanson dÕAntioche, Les ChŽtifs, and La Chanson de JŽrusalem. It is of considerable interest for the history of French literature because it is apparently one of the earliest mises en prose, preceded perhaps only by Robert de BoronÕs prose Merlin. The author explicitly refers to his purpose: ÒlÕai commenchie sans rime pour lÕestore avoir plus abregiet et si me sanle que le rime est mout plaisans et mout bele mais mout est longue [I undertook it without rhyme to have it shorter, for it seems to me that rhyme is beautiful but very long]Ó (1:3-5). In fact, he has rendered the original verse into prose by two distinct methods. The Swan Knight branches of the Cycle are severely abbreviated. Collation with the verse texts is impossible; individual verses are only rarely identifiable. On the other hand, the more historically based branches are the product of an almost verse for line dŽrimage, more often than not by the simple elimination of the second hemistich, as well as the elimination of repetitive, descriptive, and affective passages.

Download or read book The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance written by Phillipa Hardman and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve essays address a central concern of medieval romance, the matter of identity. Identity is a central concern of medieval romance. Here it is approached through essays on issues of origin and parentage, transformation and identity, and fundamental questions of what constitutes the human. The construction of knightly identity through education and testing is explored, and placed in relation to female identity; the significance of the motif of doubling is studied. Shifting perceptions of identities are traced through the histories of specific texts, and the identity of romance itself is the subject of several essays discussing ideas of genre (the overlap between romance and hagiography is a theme linking a number of articles in the collection). Medieval romanceis shown as a marketable commodity in the printed output of William Copland, and as an opportunity for literary experimentation in the work of John Metham. The texts discussed include: Chevalere Assigne, Sir Gowther, Sir Ysumbras, Beves of Hamtoun, Robert of Cisyle, the Fierabras romances, Breton lays, Thomas's Tristan and Marie de France's Eliduc. Contributors: W.A. DAVENPORT, JOANNE CHARBONNEAU, CORINNE SAUNDERS, AMANDA HOPKINS, MORGAN DICKSON, MARIANNE AILES, JUDITH WEISS, JOHN SIMONS, RHIANNON PURDIE, MALDWYN MILLS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ROGER DALRYMPLE.

Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Two Knights of the Swan Lohengrin and Helyas written by Robert Jaffray and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: