chanson de geste

The earliest chansons de geste are (more or less) anonymous.

It is one of the longest of all the chansons de geste.

This idol-worship is attributed to Muslims in several chansons de geste.

This is evident within the chansons de geste or songs of heroic deeds.

The first four texts are in the form of chansons de geste and the fifth is a prose romance.

The chansons de geste created a body of mythology that lived on well after they ceased to be produced in France.

Atlantes was a powerful sorcerer featured in the chansons de geste.

Their tales constitute the first chansons de geste.

More than one hundred chansons de geste have survived in around three hundred manuscripts.

Aude was the name of Roland's fiancée in the chansons de geste.

At least three swords bearing the similar name Murglaie occur in other chansons de geste.

The chansons de geste of the cycle of Guillaume are:

This genre was known as chansons de geste which is Old French for "songs of heroic deeds."

In the north, the jesters produced chansons de geste full of tales of battle and combat.

The traditional subject matter of the chansons de geste became known as the Matter of France.

Modern theories of the fabliaux and the chansons de geste are based on two of Bédier's studies.

Unlike the later form of the novel and like the chansons de geste, the genre of romance dealt with traditional themes.

Les chansons de geste.

The tapestry itself, a purely secular document, bears a much closer resemblance to the epic chansons de geste than a religious memorial.

Yet for all their brutality, the Chansons de Geste lay more emphasis on courage, generosity and loyalty as the virtues of the warrior.

The poem contains elements of two hagiographical genres: the heroic biography or Chansons de Geste, and the epic.

Initially, minstrels were simply servants at court, and entertained the lord and courtiers with chansons de geste or their local equivalent.

It is a conscious play on the assumption implicit in many chansons de geste that divine approval is indicated by success on the battlefield.

The genre began in thirteenth-century Norway with translations of French chansons de geste; it soon expanded to similar indigenous creations.

All these poems are in the form of chansons de geste, that is, in stanzas of indefinite length, with a single rhyme.