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The Canso d'Antioca : an Occitan epic chronicle of the First Crusade / Carol Sweetenham and Linda M. Paterson.
Van Pelt Library PC3328.C283 S94 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sweetenham, Carol.
- Language:
- English
- Provençal (to 1500)
- Subjects (All):
- Canso d'Antioca.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 363 pages : plans ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]
- Language Note:
- Parallel text in Old Provençal and English; commentary in English.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The textual history of the Canso d'Antioca 5
- Gregory Bechada's verse chronicle 5
- The development of a Canso d'Antioca tradition after Bechada 9
- The Madrid fragment 17
- Fragments of the Madrid text in the Gran Conquista de Ultramar 28
- The Canso de San Gili: a lost section of the Madrid fragment? 45
- Chapter 2 The Canso d'Antioca and the vernacular epic tradition of the First Crusade 51
- The Old French Crusade Cycle 51
- The place of the Chanson d'Antioche in the Old French Crusade Cycle: a later edition of an eyewitness text? 55
- The relationship of the Antioche to the Occitan tradition 63
- An alternative Old French verse description of the First Crusade: Hatton 77 and the Spalding manuscript 71
- Chapter 3 The Madrid fragment as history 79
- The historical background 79
- The sources for the crusade 85
- The battle of Antioch and its significance 92
- The relationship between the Canso tradition and other sources 100
- The reliability of the Canso tradition 113
- Chapter 4 Where history and literature meet: the place of the Canso tradition in vernacular literature 119
- How history was written in the twelfth century 119
- Form and intention in twelfth-century vernacular historiography 122
- The stated intentions of twelfth-century vernacular historiographers and the relationship with the chanson de geste 126
- Bechada as historiographer 132
- Gregory Bechada: a twelfth-century Occitan trailblazer? 139
- The epic style of the Madrid fragment 140
- The place of the Madrid fragment in epic tradition 159
- Appendix to chapter 4 The allusions to the Roland tradition in the Madrid fragment 165
- The Roland tradition in Occitania 165
- The two allusions in the Madrid fragment 170
- Chapter 5 Editorial principles and practices 175
- Features of the manuscript 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-326).
- Contains:
- Canso d'Antioca. English & Provençal.
- ISBN:
- 0754604101
- OCLC:
- 50478450
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