chanson de geste
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chanson de geste a medieval French historical verse romance, typically one connected with
Charlemagne. The phrase is French, and means literally ‘song of heroic deeds’, from
chanson ‘song’ and
geste from Latin
gesta ‘actions, exploits’.
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La Geste francor; edition of the Chansons de geste of MS.Marc.Rr. XIII (=256); 2v.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2009; 512 words
; 9780866983969 La Geste francor; edition of the Chansons de geste of MS.Marc.Rr...Studies; v.348 PQ1463 The chansons de geste ("songs of heroic...text reproduces all of these chanson de geste in a single format...versions of the individual chansons in different languages ...
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The meaning of amputation in the chansons de geste.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Symposium; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...dramatic tension in the chansons de geste, both sides must surfer...injuries do not. The chanson poets highlight the...Keywords: amputation, chansons de geste, corruption...dramatic tension in the chansons de geste, both sides...and Turpin in the Chanson de Roland, for ...
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Cultural incorporation: religious conversion in the old French chanson de geste.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...article are taken from several chansons de geste from the Cycle of Charlemagne...people. As the singers of the chansons were dependent on their audiences...thirteenth centuries sang chansons to their Old French-speaking...who wrote down for us the chanson de geste, Gaydon, ...
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Moses and the princess: Josephus' 'Antiquitates Judaicae' and the chansons de geste.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...marriage, is a familiar theme in the chansons de geste.(1) Indeed, it has received...time the majority of the first chansons de geste were composed. The De...familiar to modern readers of the chansons de geste: Tharbis was the daughter...
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What are chansons de geste?(ASK CALLiOPe)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/2006; 496 words
; Chansons de geste, French for "songs of valorous deeds...form, and artistic merit varied. The chansons were sung or chanted, but almost none...on historical characters and events, chansons de geste are not history. Rather, they...
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Gaydon: Chanson de geste du XIIIe siecle.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2008; 647 words
; Gaydon: Chanson de geste du XIIIe siecle, ed. Jean Subrenat...France's foremost specialists in the chanson de geste, is very welcome indeed. Gaydon is a 'sequel' to the Chanson de Roland: Gaydon is in fact the sobriquet...
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Motif-Index of German Secular Narratives from the Beginning to 1400; v.3: Miscellaneous romances, Oriental romances, chansons de geste.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2006; 564 words
; ...3: Miscellaneous romances, Oriental romances, chansons de geste. Ed. by the Austrian Academy of Sciences et al...miscellaneous romances, oriental romances, and chansons de geste. All the text is in English. Indexes will be in...
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Hugues Capet: chanson de geste du XIVe siecle.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; Hugues Capet: chanson de geste du XIVe siecle, ed. Noelle Laborderie, Classiques francais...tone and style of the poem, in which traditional features of the chanson de geste are combined with newer elements typical of the fourteenth-century...
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Le Moniage Guillaume: chanson de geste du [XII.sup.e] siecle.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; Le Moniage Guillaume: chanson de geste du [XII.sup.e] siecle, edition...euro]. This closing poem of the Geste de Guillaume d'Orange offers an...et miroir de toutes les autres [chansons] composees sur Guillaume et sur...
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Cyclification: The Development of Narrative Cycles in the Chansons de Geste and the Arthurian Romances.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1996; 700+ words
; ...plots and a range of contrasting characters. Michael Heintz, `Les techniques de la formation de cycles dans les chansons de geste', distinguishes four processes of cycle formation. Jane Taylor, `Order from accident: cyclic consciousness...
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chansons de geste
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
chansons de geste [Fr.,=songs of deeds...shrines where heroes of the chansons were supposedly buried. Sung...and Iceland. The earlier chansons—epic, aristocratic...was legendary. Some later chansons utilize fantastic adventure...elements. The oldest extant chanson, and also the ...
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chanson de geste
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
chanson de geste a medieval French historical verse romance, typically one...literally ‘song of heroic deeds’, from chanson ‘song’ and geste from Latin gesta ‘actions, exploits’...
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Chanson de Roland
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Chanson de Roland, see Roland and chansons de geste .
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chanson
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
chanson (Fr.). Song set to Fr. words. A term with many applications, especially...kind of early madrigal of the ‘ayre’ type. The chanson de geste was an heroic verse chronicle set to mus. of the 11th and 12th cents...
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Charlemagne
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...and his Paladins are the subject of numerous chansons de geste , of which the Chanson de Roland is the most famous (see Roland ). Of the three groups of French chansons de geste concerned with Charlemagne, only the first...
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