Love Cures: Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance (review)

Arthuriana ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-94
Author(s):  
Lynn Ramey
Keyword(s):  
Old French ◽  
Old French Romance

A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance. Ben Ramm

Speculum ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 485-487
Author(s):  
Carol J. Chase
Keyword(s):  
Old French ◽  
Holy Grail ◽  
Old French Romance

scholarly journals Song and the Soundscape of Old French Romance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Old French ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Chretien De Troyes ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Chrétien De Troyes ◽  
Lyric Tradition ◽  
Old French Romance

This chapter examines the presence of song and sound in romance, with a particular focus on the traditions of Old French romance from its incarnation in the 1170s, in the works of Chrétien de Troyes, to the earliest examples of romances interpolated with song (romans à chansons) which date from the first decades of the thirteenth century. Romance’s emergence coincided with a period of extraordinary creativity in the realm of vernacular song, most notably with the emergence of a northern lyric tradition of the trouvères, with the continued cultivation of their Occitan inspiration in the lyrics of the troubadours, and with the earliest efforts at codification of both, in songbooks or chansonniers, the earliest examples of which date from the 1230s. Drawing on approaches from musicology, literary studies, and sound studies, my chapter explores how sound manifests in this tradition, and proposes ways to listen to romance. Listening to romance in turn permits new ways to reframe song culture, particularly in the period prior to its notated codification, and the chapter has implications, too, for what musicology may learn from the sonic aspect of romance.

scholarly journals Paired Adjectives in the Middle Welsh Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn

2015 ◽  
pp. 281-282
Author(s):  
Oksana Dereza ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old French ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Adjective Pair ◽  
Welsh Literature ◽  
Stylistic Device ◽  
Old French Romance

One of the stylistic devices typical for Medieval Welsh literature is the usage of paired adjectives. It occurs not only in the native tales but also in the adaptations of Continental material, such as an Old French romance of chivalry Geste de Boeve de Haumtone. Predominantly, the paired adjectives in the Welsh source Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn neither have any equivalents in the French source nor correspond to “adverb mult, tut, si, plus, bien + adjective” construction. This fact is indicative of the translator’s independence in stylistic organization of the text; it also draws our attention to the emphatic nature of paired adjectives. An adjective pair usually consists of either two synonyms or two words denoting attributes of a certain character or object: cadarn-wychyr “strong and brave”. However, there can be more than two adjectives in a “pair”; this stylistic device also covers other parts of speech.

scholarly journals The Old French Romance of Amadas et Ydoine. An Historical Study

1929 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 358
Author(s):  
J. Crosland ◽  
John Revell Reinhard
Keyword(s):  
Old French ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Old French Romance
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