Carol Sweetenham, Linda M. Paterson

Gebundenes Buch

The Canso d'Antioca

An Occitan Epic Chronicle of the First Crusade

Beschreibung

The Canso d'Antioca is a fascinating text which deserves more attention than it has received. It is a fragment of a much larger epic describing the events of the First Crusade, related to the Old French Chanson d'Antioca but with many unique features. As such it presents a double interest to scholars of both history and literature. It is a source text for the First Crusade with information not contained in any other source. It is also an early and seminal text for Occitan epic, few examples of which survive. And arguably it represents the first work of vernacular verse history in France, raising fundamental questions about the junction of epic and historiography. This is the first published edition of the text since Paul Meyer's version in 1884. It is based on the single extant manuscript of the Canso found in Roda in Northern Spain and now in Madrid, accompanied by a translation into English on facing pages. The text is supported by detailed notes and a glossary of proper namescross-referenced to all major First Crusade sources. The introduction discusses in detail the history of the text and manuscript, the value of the Canso as a historical document, and its place both within the historical tradition of the Crusade and within Occitan literary tradition and 12th-century vernacular historiography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 24mm x 156mm x 234mm
• Gewicht: 860g
• ISBN-13: 9780754604105
• Artikelnr.: 54579754

Rezensionen

'The editors are to be congratulated on an excellent edition which provides scholars with an edition and a study of a text too long neglected.' Medium Aevum 'The introductory chapters do a superb job of presenting the text as a work of literature and of history, outlining the historical events the Canso attempts to describe, setting the Canso in place as a work in the Occitan and Western European literary tradition. Sweetenham and Paterson have considered not only previous studies of the Canso, but also an incredibly wide range of scholarship, from Occitan linguistics to medieval military tactics; from art history as it applies to their text to Crusade historiography. Underlying all this is their profound knowledge of the Occitan literary tradition as a reference point for the Canso. We can only be grateful.' Mediaevistik 'This edition definitively replaces that of Paul Meyer in the Archives de l'Orient latin (1884).' Crusades 'Sweetenham and Paterson's book is a distinguished contribution to philological and historical scholarship and an important addition to studies on the First Crusade as well as on Occitan epic and medieval vernacular historiography... First conceived in 1965, this magnificent undertaking is now complete, an outstanding achievement of North American scholarship in the field of medieval studies.' Speculum