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Wauchier De Denain, La Vie Seint Marcel De Lymoges, Edition Critique, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Wauchier De Denain, La Vie Seint Marcel De Lymoges, Edition Critique, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Molly Lynde-Recchia
The *Vie seint Marcel de Lymoges* presents the life of Saint Martial, who according to legend was baptized in the presence of Jesus Christ, witnessed the resurrection, and shared in the powers granted to the apostles by the Holy Spirit. Sent by his cousin Saint Peter on an evangelizing mission to the French city of Limoges, Martial is responsible for the wholesale conversion of the entire region of Aquitaine.
In the early thirteenth century, Wauchier de Denain translated this text from the eleventh-century Latin *Vita sancti Martialis episcopi Lemovicensis* attributed to Adémar de Chabannes. The *Vie seint Marcel* is one …
Prose, Verse, And Truth-Telling In The Thirteenth Century: An Essay On Form And Function In Selected Texts, Accompanied By An Edition Of The Prose Thèbes As Found In The Histoire Ancienne Jusqu'À César, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Molly Lynde-Recchia
The beginning of the thirteenth century can be viewed as the threshold which ushered in a new type of literature: the French prose narrative intended to entertain, instruct, and record. The arrival of the vernacular prose form on center stage is associated with a concern on the part of medieval writers that their compositions be accepted as truthful, and it is generally understood that it was in pursuit of that goal that translators and authors began to prefer prose to verse.
The gravitational pull of the thirteenth century's great prose cycles--the prose Tristan and the Lancelot-Grail--is intense, and they rightfully …
The Histoire Ancienne Jusqu'À César, The Vie De Seint Marciau, And Wauchier De Denain, Molly Lynde-Recchia
The Histoire Ancienne Jusqu'À César, The Vie De Seint Marciau, And Wauchier De Denain, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Molly Lynde-Recchia
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Quelques Vers Inédits De L'Histoire Ancienne Jusqu'À César (Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. 20125), Molly Lynde-Recchia
Quelques Vers Inédits De L'Histoire Ancienne Jusqu'À César (Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. 20125), Molly Lynde-Recchia
Molly Lynde-Recchia
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Narrative Strategy As Auctoritas In The Thirteenth-Century Prose Version Of The Roman De Thèbes, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Narrative Strategy As Auctoritas In The Thirteenth-Century Prose Version Of The Roman De Thèbes, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Molly Lynde-Recchia
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Verse, Prose, And Authorial Subjectivity In The Histoire Ancienne Jusqu'À César, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Verse, Prose, And Authorial Subjectivity In The Histoire Ancienne Jusqu'À César, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Molly Lynde-Recchia
No abstract provided.