Les chemins de pierre (Romans) (French Edition)

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Yvain ; ou, le chevalier au lion The Knight with the Lion treats the converse of the situation depicted in Erec et Enide. The grail , first introduced here, was to become, as the Holy Grail, a remarkably potent symbol. The unique Aucassin et Nicolette Aucassin and Nicolette , a charmingly comic idyll told in alternating sections of verse to be sung and prose to be recited , pokes sly fun at the conventions of epic and romance alike.

Its first exponents were the Occitan troubadours, poet-musicians of the 12th and 13th centuries, writing in medieval Occitan, of whom some are known by name. Among them are clerics and both male and female nobles. The troubadours no longer considered women to be the disposable assets of men. The canso French chanson , made of five or six stanzas with a summary envoi , was the favourite vehicle for their love poetry; but they used various other forms, from dawn songs to satiric, political, or debating poems, all usually highly crafted.

Guilhelm IX, duke of Aquitaine see William IX , the first known poet in the Occitan language , mixed obscenity with his courtly sentiments. Among the finest troubadours are the graceful Bernard de Ventadour ; Jaufre Rudel , who expressed an almost mystical longing for a distant love; the soldier and poet Bertran de Born ; and the master of the hermetic tradition, Arnaut Daniel.

Rutebeuf wrote verse in personal, even autobiographical mode though the personal details are probably fictional on a variety of subjects: It appears in pious and didactic literature and, as authorial comment, in other genres but more usually in general terms than as particular, corrective satire.

Human vice and folly also serve purely comic ends, as in the fabliaux. These fairly short verse tales composed between the late 12th and the 14th centuries—most of which are anonymous, though some are by leading poets—generate laughter from situations extending from the obscene to the mock-religious, built sometimes around simple wordplay and frequently elaborate deceptions and counterdeceptions. They are played out in all classes of society but predominantly among the bourgeoisie.

Many fabliaux carry mock morals , inviting comparison with the didactic fables. Realistic in tone, they paint instructive pictures of everyday life in medieval France. They ultimately yielded in importance to the farces, bequeathing a fund of anecdotes to later writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Giovanni Boccaccio.

Inspired partly by the popular animal fable , partly by the Latin satire of monastic life Ysengrimus ; Eng. Ysengrimus , the collection of ribald comic tales known as the Roman de Renart Renard the Fox began to circulate in the late 12th century, chronicling the rivalry of Renart the Fox and the wolf Isengrin, and the lively and largely scandalous goings-on in the animal kingdom ruled by Noble the Lion.

By the 14th century about 30 branches existed, forming a veritable beast epic. Full of close social observation, they exude the earthy humour of the fabliaux; but, particularly in some of the later branches, this is sharpened into true satire directed against abuses in church and state , with the friars and rapacious nobility as prime targets. Allegory , popular from early times, was employed in Latin literature by such authorities as Augustine , Prudentius , Martianus Capella , and, in the late 12th century, Alain de Lille.

But the most influential allegorical work in French was the Roman de la rose The Romance of the Rose , where courtly love is first celebrated, then undermined. Guillaume, however, left the poem unfinished, with the dreamer frustrated and his chief ally imprisoned. Courtly idealism is shunned for a practical, often critical or cynical view of the world. Love, only one of many topics treated in the completed version, is synonymous with procreation; and a misogynistic tone pervades the writing. The Treasure of the City of Ladies sets out in detail the important social roles of women of all classes.

Allegory and similar conceits abound in much late medieval poetry, as with Guillaume de Machaut , the outstanding musician of his day, who composed for noble patronage a number of narrative dits amoureux short pieces on the subject of love and a quantity of lyric verse. A talented technician, Machaut did much to popularize and develop the relatively new fixed forms: A prolific writer, he dealt with public and private affairs, sometimes satirically; but he composed little love poetry, and his work was not set to music. Jean Froissart , the chronicler, also wrote pleasantly in a variety of lyric forms, as did Christine de Pisan, whose poetry had a greater individuality.

There is an elegiac tone to much of his graceful courtly verse. At the University of Paris, where he became Master of Arts in , he acquired some learning but also became involved in rioting, robbery, and manslaughter. The Testament and Other Poems. It uses the octets of the Lais interspersed with ballades and rondeaux and is similarly packed with personal gossip, often tongue-in-cheek but leaving a bitter aftertaste.

Following more brushes with justice , Villon disappeared for good, narrowly escaping hanging. Commonly considered to have been the first modern French poet, he brings a personal note to the familiar lyric themes of age, death, and loss and mixes elegy with irony, satire, and burlesque humour. His verse shows great technical skill, a keen command of rhythmic effects, and an economy of expression that not only enhances his lively wit but produces moments of intensely focused vision and, in individual poems, moving statements of human experience.

None of his contemporaries or immediate successors was able to match the vigour of his verse. Often obsessed by metrical ingenuity, extravagant rhymes, and other conceits, they favoured Italian as well as Classical models, thus heralding the Renaissance. It is unfair, however, to judge them by their words alone, since music was, for most, a vital ingredient of their art. Prose flourished as a literary medium from roughly Other Arthurian romances adopted it, notably the great Vulgate cycle written between and , with its five branches by various hands. The Tristan legend was reworked and extended in prose.

As well as traditional material, new fictions appeared in prose, taking a very different view of love, and often in the form of short comic tales. The bawdy tales of the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles c.

Pious and instructional works abound. More interesting are the chronicles, which avoid the romantic extravagances of their verse predecessors. Jean, sire de Joinville , was 84 when, in , he completed his Histoire de Saint Louis , a flattering biographical portrait of his intimate friend Louis IX , whom he had accompanied on the Seventh Crusade. Chronicles of the Crusades. Jean Froissart , who traveled extensively in England and Scotland and on the Continent, projected his admiration of chivalry into his four books of chronicles.

Covering the years to , they contain much picturesque detail, largely from personal observation.

There, from early times, musical and dramatic elements tropes were introduced into certain offices, particularly at Easter and Christmas. From this practice sprang liturgical drama.

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Performances took place inside churches, with the cast of clergy moving from place to place in the sanctuary. Sponsus , which uses the Poitevin dialect. Stories from the Bible and lives of the saints were dramatized; and, as the scope of the dramas broadened, more plays were performed outside the church and used only the vernacular. It is known from a copy in an Anglo-Norman manuscript, and it may have originated in England in the midth century.

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Neither it nor the Seinte Resurreccion c. Of relatively modest proportions, this contains diversified dialogue with excellent dramatic potential and probably drew on earlier plays now lost. By the 15th century, societies had been formed in various towns for the performance of the increasingly elaborate mystery plays. In Paris the Confraternity of the Passion survived until , though its production of sacred plays was banned in Other plays took up to eight days. Biblical material was supplemented with legend, theology, and elements of lyricism and slapstick, and spectacular stage effects were employed.

A crucial factor in the emergence of the comic theatre was the oral presentation of much medieval literature.