The Epic Quest: Studies in Four Old French Chansons de Geste |
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... Christian typology , life for all men is a pilgrimage and exile . Each son of Adam walks through life a naked peregrinus . The true Christian does not wander idly , how- ever , but seeks perfection and salvation . The Exodus myth serves ...
... Christian typology , life for all men is a pilgrimage and exile . Each son of Adam walks through life a naked peregrinus . The true Christian does not wander idly , how- ever , but seeks perfection and salvation . The Exodus myth serves ...
Page 112
... Christ , that is , participate in the attributes of the Christ myth , whose overtones will move the literary public . Ami's poverty , sickness , exile are cured - by the blood of children.50 One of the most striking of Christian myths ...
... Christ , that is , participate in the attributes of the Christ myth , whose overtones will move the literary public . Ami's poverty , sickness , exile are cured - by the blood of children.50 One of the most striking of Christian myths ...
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... Christian life at the same time . Each level of the narrative lends significance to the creation of a complex , artistic whole . 53 That Ami et Amile is a song of deeds in arms and a poem of moral and religious experience - a Christian ...
... Christian life at the same time . Each level of the narrative lends significance to the creation of a complex , artistic whole . 53 That Ami et Amile is a song of deeds in arms and a poem of moral and religious experience - a Christian ...
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adventures Amauri ambush Ami and Amile Ami et Amile Ami's Amile's appears archetypal Auberon Aymeri de Narbonne Babylon battle Belissant Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube Blaye blood Boniface Chanson d'Ami chanson de geste Chanson de Roland character Charlemagne Charles Charles's Charlot Christian Claresme Claresme's comedy comic court courtly Duke Dunostre emperor enemy Ermengarde Esclarmonde father Ferrant feudal folklore France Garin Gautier Gaydon genre Gériaume Germans Girard de Roussillon Guillaume Hardré hero hero's heroic Hugues humor Huon de Bordeaux Huon's ideal killed king knight leprosy literary literature Lord Lubias marry medieval messengers motifs Naimes narrative nature Oede Ogier Old French Epic Orgueilleux pagans Paris parody pattern Pavia Pèlerinage de Charlemagne poem poem's protagonist quest Raoul de Cambrai Renaud de Montauban role romance rustic Saracen Savari seeks Song of Roland stylized supernatural symbolic theme tion Tormont tradition traitors triumph trouvère vavassor victory vilain young youth