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From Chanson de Geste to Epic Chronicle

Medieval Occitan Poetry of War

Gérard Gouiran author Linda Paterson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:13th Jun '22

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From Chanson de Geste to Epic Chronicle cover

In this collection of essays Gérard Gouiran, one of the world's leading and much-loved scholars of medieval Occitan literature, examines this literature from a primarily historical perspective. Through texts offering hitherto unexplored insights into the history and culture of medieval Europe, he studies topics such as the representation of alterity through female figures and Saracens in opposition to the ideal of the Christian knight; the ways in which the narrating of history can become resistance and propaganda discourse in the clash between the Catholic Church and the French on the one hand, and the Cathar heretics and the people of Occitania on the other; questions of intertextuality and intercultural relations; cultural representations fashioning the West in contact with the East; and Christian dissidence in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Written in an approachable style, the book will be of historical, literary and philological interest to scholars and students, as well as any reader curious about this hitherto little-known Occitan literature. (CS1087).

ISBN: 9781032336589

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 358g

248 pages