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Studies of the evolution of the hero, from Beowulf to Lancelot.
Andre Crepin, head of the English faculty at the Sorbonne, has made
a great contribution to medieval English studies in France and in
Europe. These studies in his honour reflect the wide range of his
interests in Old and Middle English, fromBeowulf to Malory. Their
linking theme is the literary and linguistic evolution of the hero,
from the classic expression of the Germanic code to the chivalry of
the knights of the Round Table, from Beowulf toChaucer's knight to
Sir Lancelot. Beowulf as archetypal hero is both the subject of and
the concept behind more than one study; others, attempting to
define heroism, grapple with the semantic problem posed by the
absence of thisword until very late in the medieval period; and the
very notion of heroism is questioned as the passive hero or
anti-hero emerges as a literary type, at the same time as the
medieval consciousness of self developed. Contributors: GUY
BOURGUIN, LEO CARRUTHERS, PETER CLEMOES, ANDY ORCHARD, ERIC
STANLEY, JULIETTE DOR, DEREK BREWER, TERENCE P. DOLAN, JILL MANN,
JOSSELINE BIBARD, JEAN-JACQUES BLANCHOT, JAMES WIMSATT, TERENCE
McCARTHY, GLORIA CIGMAN.
Translation of fifteen lyrics marked Ch' found in University of
Pennsylvania MS French 15, along with a detailed inventory of the
contents and a study of English and Chaucerian connections. When
Chaucer began his service in the English courts in the late 1350s,
the French lyric in the l>formes fixes/l> of ballade,
rondeau, virelay, and chant royal was the poetry of the court.
Chaucer no doubt composed such poetry. Among extant anthologies of
lyrics in the fixed forms from that time, University of
Pennsylvania MS French 15, comprising 310 poems of which about half
are anonymous, seems the most likely to contain works written by
Chaucer. To add to the likelihood, fifteen of the best anonymous
poems - ten ballades, four chants royaux, and a rondeau - have the
intriguing initials Ch' entered just beneath the rubrics. Besides
editions and translations of the fifteen lyrics, l>Chaucer and
the Poems of Ch'/l> provides a record of the numerous filiations
of the Pennsylvania MS collection with Chaucer and England. This
record includes text of a fascinating exchange of poems between
Chaucer's early contemporaries, Philippe de Vitry and Jean de la
Mote, the text of Granson's l>Cinq Balades Ensievans/l> in
the closest version extant to Chaucer's l>Complaint of
Venus/l>, and an analysis of the contents of the MS as they
relate to Chaucer. l>Chaucer and the Poems of Ch'/l>
concludes with a detailed inventory of this little-studied MS with
particular note of Chaucerian aspects of it.
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