Chanson de Roland

France, "which inspired the noble" Chanson de Roland "and has been so strongly accentuated in the recent struggle for Alsace-Lorraine.

Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France Edmund Gosse 1888

The Middle Ages had witnessed the flowering of narrative poetry--epics like the Chanson de Roland or Les quatre fils Aymon, romances like Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain ou le Chevalier au lion--and the development of the historical chronicle, such as those of Froissart, but the form of the novel--a long fictional work of prose depicting characters, settings, and events imagined by the author--would not develop until the seventeenth century.

A Novel Enterprise Julianne Douglas 2009

The Middle Ages had witnessed the flowering of narrative poetry--epics like the Chanson de Roland or Les quatre fils Aymon, romances like Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain ou le Chevalier au lion--and the development of the historical chronicle, such as those of Froissart, but the form of the novel--a long fictional work of prose depicting characters, settings, and events imagined by the author--would not develop until the seventeenth century.

Archive 2009-08-01 Julianne Douglas 2009

Or the traditional character of the Chanson de Roland, taken over by Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, and why not, Virginia Woolf, together with millions of marionette representations throughout the piazzas of Southern Italy for centuries the Pupi tradition.

Publishing . . . Huh? Walter Jon Williams 2008

Elsewhere, a different scribe copied down the Old French story Chanson de Roland.

Medieval manuscript to be put online 2007

Elsewhere, a different scribe copied down the Old French story Chanson de Roland.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

She cites the example of Gawain, in the Chanson de Roland, who responds to an incredulous question about the proximity of his death by saying: 'I tell you that I shall not live two days'.

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (Harper 2005) Miglior acque 2007

Drawing extensively on the medieval Chanson de Roland, he traces his career from his humble origins to his heroic death at the battle of Roncesvalles, when he was butchered by the Saracens.

Archive 2007-08-01 2007

She cites the example of Gawain, in the Chanson de Roland, who responds to an incredulous question about the proximity of his death by saying: 'I tell you that I shall not live two days'.

Archive 2007-07-01 Miglior acque 2007

Drawing extensively on the medieval Chanson de Roland, he traces his career from his humble origins to his heroic death at the battle of Roncesvalles, when he was butchered by the Saracens.

Review of Charlemagne and Roland, by Allan Massie 2007