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From Chanson de Geste to Epic Chronicle - Medieval Occitan Poetry of War (Hardcover)
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From Chanson de Geste to Epic Chronicle - Medieval Occitan Poetry of War (Hardcover)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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In this collection of essays Gerard 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).
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