Raoul de Cambrai
by Sarah Kay (Editor)
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Raoul de Cambrai is one of the most violent and passionate Old French poems of the cycle of barons in revolt. The three relations that structure medieval society - companionship, feudalism, and the family - are here seen in crisis. Conflicts of interest, and the competition for resources,result in social disintegration, wholesale loss of life, and the collapse of authority. The poem, probably composed around the turn of the thirteenth century, results from successive reworkings that weave a show more many-layered commentary on its own moral and political themes. This first edition for over ahundred years draws on important manuscript material unknown to the text's previous editors. It is prefaced by a scholarly introduction and accompanied by an annotated translation into English prose. show lessTags
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A exciting violent epic. Not sure if this translation is complete, a new one has been published by Oxford Univ. Press
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Sarah Kay is Professor of French and Occitan Literature, Department of French, University of Cambridge.
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- Fiction and Literature, Poetry, Literature Studies and Criticism, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 841.1 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French poetry Early French 842–1400
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- PQ1505 .R2 .E5 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Old French literature To 1350/1400
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- English, French
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