SociétéRencesvals British Branch

British Rencesvals Publications 5

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The Chanson de Geste and its Reception

Essays presented to Philip E. Bennett by members of the SociétéRencesvals

edited by Marianne J. Ailes, Anne Elizabeth Cobby, Peter S. Noble

Edinburgh 2012

ISBN 97809519791 7 4

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The British Branch of the SociétéRencesvals presents this volume to honour our colleague and distinguished Rencesvalian Professor Philip Bennett. It reflects his core research interest, Romance epic poetry from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, the subject at the heart of the Society’s aims.

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The Chanson de Geste and its Reception

Essays presented to Philip E. Bennett by members of the SociétéRencesvals

edited by Marianne J. Ailes, Anne Elizabeth Cobby, Peter S. Noble

Edinburgh 2012

ISBN 97809519791 7 4

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James Laidlaw, ‘Professor Philip Bennett’

Peter Noble, Introduction

Anne Cobby, ‘The Publications of Philip E. Bennett’

Marianne J. Ailes, ‘Giants and Outsize Warriors: Difference and Assimilation in the Geste du roi’

Jane E. Everson,‘An Author and his Ghosts: Editorial Problems of a Posthumous First Edition’

Joël H. Grisward, ‘Puzzle pour marionnettes: Aymeri de Narbonne et Carcas de Carcassonne’

Bernard Guidot, ‘De la chanson de geste au roman populaire: quelquesaperçusfondéssurMilles et Amys, réécritured’AlfredDelvau’

Françoise H. M. Le Saux, ‘Prowess, the Nine Worthies and the Hundred Years War: The Prologues to the Chroniquesof Jean Froissart and Enguerrand de Monstrelet’

Leslie Zarker Morgan, ‘Flohart, Guinehart, Serpents and Feminie: Carnaval au féminin in the Guillaume d’Orange Cycle’

Finn E. Sinclair, ‘The Present of History: The Cansò de la Crozada’

François Suard, ‘Durendal: quelques avatars d’un objet mythique’

Jean-Claude Vallecalle, ‘Destinéeindividuelle et destinée collective dansAquilon de Bavière’

Contributors

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