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Love's Masks
A study of identity, intertextuality and meaning in the Old French Tristan Poems. The book is divided into three sections: Tristan's social identities, Tristan's disguises, Tristan victim and savior.
The Old French Tristan Poems
Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.
The Chanson d'Antioche
The Old-French Chanson d'Antioche has long intrigued historians and literary scholars. Unusually among epic poems, it follows closely a well documented historical event – the First Crusade – and appears to include substantial and genuine historical content. At one time it was believed to be based on an account by an eye-witness, 'Richard the Pilgrim'. Carol Sweetenham and Susan Edgington have combined forces to investigate such claims, and their findings are set out in a comprehensive introduction which, firstly, examines the textual history of the poem from its possible oral beginnings through several re-workings to its present form, achieved early in the thirteenth century. A second ch...
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