Soci ét é Re nc esvals B ri tish Bra nc h
British Rencesvals Publications 5
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The Chanson de Geste and its Reception
Essays presented to Philip E. Bennett by members of the Société Rencesvals
edited by Marianne J. Ailes, Anne Elizabeth Cobby, Peter S. Noble
Edinburgh 2012
ISBN 978 0 9519791 7 4
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The British Branch of the Société Rencesvals presents this volume to honour our colleague and
distinguished Rencesvalian Professor Philip Bennett. It reflects his core research interest, Romance
epic poetry from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, the subject at the heart of the Society’s aims.
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Soci ét é Re nc esvals B ri tish Bra nc h
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The Chanson de Geste and its Reception
Essays presented to Philip E. Bennett by members of the Société Rencesvals
edited by Marianne J. Ailes, Anne Elizabeth Cobby, Peter S. Noble
Edinburgh 2012
ISBN 978 0 9519791 7 4
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James Laidlaw, ‘Professor Philip Bennett’
Peter Noble, Introduction
Anne Cobby, ‘The Publications of Philip E. Bennett’
Marianne J. Ailes, ‘Giants and Outsize Warriors: Difference and Assimilation in the Geste du roi’
Jane E. Everson, ‘An Author and his Ghosts: Editorial Problems of a Posthumous First Edition’
Joël H. Grisward, ‘Puzzle pour marionnettes: Aymeri de Narbonne et Carcas de Carcassonne’
Bernard Guidot, ‘De la chanson de geste au roman populaire: quelques aperçus fondés sur Milles et Amys,
réécriture d’Alfred Delvau’
Françoise H. M. Le Saux, ‘Prowess, the Nine Worthies and the Hundred Years War: The Prologues to the
Chroniques of Jean Froissart and Enguerrand de Monstrelet’
Leslie Zarker Morgan, ‘Flohart, Guinehart, Serpents and Feminie: Carnaval au féminin in the Guillaume
d’Orange Cycle’
Finn E. Sinclair, ‘The Present of History: The Cansò de la Crozada’
François Suard, ‘Durendal: quelques avatars d’un objet mythique’
Jean-Claude Vallecalle, ‘Destinée individuelle et destinée collective dans Aquilon de Bavière’
Contributors
Tabula Gratulatoria