Godefroi de Buillon / edited by Jan Boyd Roberts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roberts, Jan Boyd.

Series:

Old French Crusade cycle ; v. 10.

The Old French Crusade cycle ; v. 10

Standardized Title:

Godefroi de Bouillon (Old French story)

Language:

English

French, Old (ca. 842-1300)

Subjects (All):

Godfrey, of Bouillon, approximately 1060-1100--Fiction.

Godfrey.

Godfrey, of Bouillon, approximately 1060-1100.

Crusades--First, 1096-1099--Fiction.

Crusades.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 147 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1996]

Language Note:

Text in Old French with critical matter in English.

Summary:

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 Ch?tifs, and La Chanson de J?rusalem. 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 d?rimage, more often than not by the simple elimination of the second hemistich, as well as the elimination of repetitive, descriptive, and affective passages.

Contents:

Plan of Publication vii

I The Old French Crusade Cycle ix

II The Manuscript ix

III Summary of the Narrative xii

IV The Historical Element xiii

V The Language of the Text xvii

VI The Date of Godefroi de Buillon xxii

VII The Origin of the Scribe of Godefroi de Buillon xxiii

VIII Editorial Policy xxiv

Godefroi de Buillon

La Naissance du Chevalier au Cygne 1

Le Chevalier au Cygne 7

Les Enfances Godefroi 17

La Chanson d'Antioche 31

Les Chetifs 63

La Chanson de Jerusalem 79.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxv]-xxvi) and index.

ISBN:

0817308555

OCLC:

33866506