Raoul de Houdenc Le roman des eles. The anonymous Ordene de chevalerie by de Houdenc Raoul

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Scholars and students working on the early courtly and chivalric literature of medieval Europe will have often felt the need for contemporary theoretical material with which to illustrate their arguments about courtesy and chivalry in romances, etc. The present volume, which presents critical editions of the two earliest didactic poems of this kind in the vernacular (both date from the first quarter of the thirteenth century), was conceived partly to fill this need. This book will be of show more interest not only to specialists in Old French literature, but also to those studying other literatures; bot show less