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The Roland Legend in Nineteenth Century French Literature
The year was 778. Charlemagne, starting homeward after an expedition onto the Iberian Peninsula, left his nephew, Count Roland, in command of a rear guard. As Roland and his troops moved through the Pyrenees, a fierce enemy swooped down and annihilated them. Whether the attackers were Moors, Basques, Gascons, or Aquitainians is still disputed. The massacre soon passed into legend, preserved but at the same time expanded and interpreted in oral tradition and written accounts. Dormant after the late Middle Ages, the legend began to inspire literary works even before the discovery and publication of the Oxford manuscript Chanson de Roland in 1837. The French Revolution and Empire, temporarily r...
The Living Age
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Sir Roland Ashton
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Onomastics of the “Chanson de Roland”
This ambitious study of all proper names in the Chanson de Roland is based for the first time on a systematic survey of the whole geographical and historical literature from antiquity to after 1100 for the Geographica, and on working through (almost) the entire documentary tradition of France and its neighbouring regions from 778 to the early 12th century for the personal names. The overall result is clear: the surviving song is more tightly and profoundly structured, even in smaller scenes, than generally assumed, it is also richer in depicting reality, and it has a very long prehistory, which can be traced in outline, albeit with decreasing certainty, (almost) back to the Frankish defeat o...
Big Karst Chambers
This book documents and describes 32 natural caves from France and around the globe that have a width larger than 50 m, including data on the largest underground chamber in the world: Sarawak Chamber. Artificial caves are not able to be constructed at these volumes and most of these naturally forming chambers had never been surveyed before with little geological data available. Methodologies for studying these large volume Karst chambers are described and for each site, a survey, a geomorphological sketch, a description and photographic images are provided. The process of the mechanical transportation by underground running water, of an insoluble but erodible rock located below thick limesto...
The Physical Tourist
Travelers differ.At one extreme are random travelers who see what they accidentally bump into.At the other extreme are the lock-step travelers who follow a banner (or a red umbrella) and look when and where a voice tells them to look. Between these extremes are the guide-book travelers who identify the whereabouts of those sites that interest them and they plan their sightseeing accordingly. If a traveler’s interests are captivated by the arts, guide books can be very helpful. For example, the table of contents of a current guide book for travelers going to G- many has sections on architecture, art, literature, music and cinema.The index gives page references for famous writers, musicians, and artists.Yet, while Germany was a dominate force in physical science during the 19th and into the 20th centuries and while the names and photos of prominent German physical scientists who worked in this period are sprinkled through the pages of textbooks, only one scientist is m- tioned by name:Albert Einstein is identified as the most famous citizen of Ulm.
Lives of Deception
Laura and Ryan, a prominent engaged couple, are having the wedding of the year in 1920 in New Orleans. Suddenly, Laura receives a strange letter warning her that she is about to make the biggest mistake of her life by marrying Ryan. She decides to travel to Cajun country and learns she and Ryan are really sister and brother given away by their imprisoned mother. When Laura exposes the family secret, she finds out that both sets of their adoptive parents and even Mammy, her nanny, had been covering it up for years. From the mysterious Cajun man who steps back into Laura's life from her childhood, to Ryan's secret love affair while engaged to his sister, drama after drama change Laura and Ryan's lives forever. Will she chose Pierre, the mysteriously romantic Cajun or a life of loneliness and heartbreak over Ryan'¦
The Secret Foe
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Mated in Mist
The moment Ryder sees her, he knows she’s his—even if he has to walk away. Ryder has a secret. One he can never tell a soul, not even his brothers. Leah is a witch on the run with no one to turn to, but as soon as she meets Ryder, she knows her world has changed. Her coven has rejected her and now the world knows magic exists. Together, Ryder and Leah must fight to save their friends, but their powers are keeping them apart. If the Talon Pack is to survive, they must rely on magic that might break them all. And if Leah wants to keep Ryder, she must prove to him that he’s worth saving. Even if he doesn’t believe it himself. ~~~~~~~~ Read what others are saying about New York Times bes...
