Article: Motif-Index of German Secular Narratives from the Beginning to 1400; v.3: Miscellaneous romances, Oriental romances, chansons de geste.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: The meaning of amputation in the chansons de ...
Symposium;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... to be dramatic tension in the chansons de geste, both sides must surfer in the fight ... order. Keywords: amputation, chansons de geste, corruption, epic, felony, pagans ... to be dramatic tension in the chansons de geste, both sides must surfer loss. Indeed ...

Article: La Geste francor; edition of the Chansons de geste ...
Reference & Research Book News;  November 1, 2009 ;     547 words ... ... Geste francor; edition of the Chansons de geste of MS.Marc.Rr. XIII (=256); 2v ... Studies; v.348 PQ1463 The chansons de geste ("songs of heroic deeds") of Biblioteca ... volume text reproduces all of these chanson de geste in a single format. The commentary builds ...

Article: Cultural incorporation: religious conversion in the old French ...
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... article are taken from several chansons de geste from the Cycle of Charlemagne, a group ... person who wrote down for us the chanson de geste, Gaydon, describes the camp followers ... ideal of Frenchness. And the chansons de geste show that the Francophone listeners saw ...

Article: Moses and the princess: Josephus' 'Antiquitates Judaicae' and the ...
Medium Aevum;  March 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... is a familiar theme in the chansons de geste.(1) Indeed, it has received a good ... time the majority of the first chansons de geste were composed. The De bello Judaico and ... familiar to modern readers of the chansons de geste: Tharbis was the daughter of the Ethiopian ...

Dictionary definition: chanson de geste
The Oxford American College Dictionary;      234 words ...chan·son de geste / sh ä n ˈsôn də ˈ zh est / • n. ( pl. chansons de geste / sh ä n ˈsô n (z) / ) a medieval historical romance in French verse, typically ...

Article: chansons de geste
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      477 words ...chansons de geste [Fr.,=songs of deeds], a group of epic poems of medieval France written from the 11th through ... French Epic (1971), and N. A. Daniel, Heroes and Saracens: A Reinterpretation of the Chansons de Geste (1983).

Article: Gaydon: Chanson de geste du XIIIe siecle.(Brief ...
Medium Aevum;  March 22, 2008 ;     647 words ...Gaydon: Chanson de geste du XIIIe siecle, ed. Jean Subrenat, co-translated with Andree ... then, by one of France's foremost specialists in the chanson de geste, is very welcome indeed. Gaydon is a 'sequel' to the Chanson de ...