scholarly journals The Character Types in the Old French Chansons de Geste

PMLA ◽  
1906 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Wistar Comfort
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Old French ◽  
Chanson De Roland ◽  
Chansons De Geste ◽  
Moyen Âge ◽  
Moyen Age ◽  
Character Types

“Le moyen age forme un anneau indispensable dans la chaîne de la transmission littéraire à travers les siècles.”—Gaston Paris, Cosmopolis, Sept., 1898.Three-quarters of a century has elapsed since the mediæval epic literature of France first attracted the attention of scholars. This interval has been marked by an uninterrupted succession of texts discovered and edited. The value of these texts to the student of language is great; their value to the historian of politics and society is considerable; but their literary bearing has not been sufficiently emphasized. To this day the general public has but a vague idea of the character and significance of that national epic of which the Chanson de Roland is the highest expression and which Léon Gautier strove so bravely to render popular. The mediæval literature of France has not yet completely recovered from the reputation of vulgarity given to it by the Renaissance.

scholarly journals Le temps signifiant et le Moyen Âge français

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Andrea Tarnowski
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Natural Setting ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Roman De La Rose ◽  
Chanson De Roland ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Moyen Âge ◽  
Moyen Age

An analysis of “weather events” and their meaning in works of French medieval literature – La Chanson de Roland, Le Chevalier au lion, Le Roman de la rose, Le Livre du Cuer d’amours espris and Le Debat d’entre le gris et le noir – finds different forms of interaction between the outside world and human beings. Whether a connection between man and nature is mediated by God, set by the human arrangement of or incursion into a natural setting, or left so loose as to suggest nature’s indifference to human witness, weather contributes to the picture.

La Chanson de Roland dans les litteratures francaise et espagnole au moyen age

1952 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 586
Author(s):  
P. E. Russell ◽  
Jules Horrent
Keyword(s):  
Chanson De Roland ◽  
Moyen Âge ◽  
Moyen Age

La Chanson de Roland dans les litteratures francaise et espagnole au moyen age

1953 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Raymond S. Willis ◽  
Jules Horrent
Keyword(s):  
Chanson De Roland ◽  
Moyen Âge ◽  
Moyen Age

scholarly journals Les mots de la guerre au Moyen Âge : étymologie, usage et évolution sémantique

Linguistica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Montserrat Planelles Iváñez
Keyword(s):  
Nous Proposons ◽  
Chanson De Geste ◽  
Chanson De Roland ◽  
Moyen Âge ◽  
Moyen Age

La guerre fait partie de l’univers socioculturel du Moyen Âge. Nous nous proposons de parcourir La Chanson de Roland pour étudier le lexique propre à la guerre. Notre analyse se limitera au vocabulaire de la guerre dans cette chanson de geste et ne portera que sur des éléments significatifs autour de trois grands concepts : le guerrier (guerrier, chevalier, cheval, escuier, armer), l’équipement et les armes (armeüre, haubert, escu, espée, javelot, oriflamme, enseigne, baniere) et l’armée (ost, armée, conestablie, cumpaignie, semondre, soldeiers, concorde, front, rereguarde, bataille, meslée). Notre objectif est d’observer ce champ sémantique du point de vue lexicologique, avec une démarche diachronique. En conséquence, nous présenterons les familles morphologiques et sémantiques des unités lexicales les plus représentatives en étudiant leur étymologie ainsi que leur évolution sémantique et leur survivance.

Patrick Gautier Dalché, Marie-Rose Bonnet and Philippe Rigaud, eds. and trans., Bertrand Boysset, Chronique. Textes vernaculaires du Moyen Age 20. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 540-541
Author(s):  
Wendy Pfeffer
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Moyen Âge ◽  
Talented Artist ◽  
Moyen Age

Bertran Boysset’s fame has been on the rise in recent years, as his multiple works have been brought to the attention of scholars and to the general public. Born between 1345 and 1350, Boysset lived his life in Arles, France, where he worked as a surveyor, invested in the fishing industry, owned vines, and composed several original works in Occitan, including a saint’s life, a manual for surveyors, and this chronicle. He died in 1415 or 1416. As Patrick Gautier Dalché observes, Boysset’s œuvre demonstrates a literary, scientific, and technical education that is wide-ranging (17). Responsible for the illustrations in his texts, he was also a talented artist (20).

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