请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 Prise d'Orange
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Notes

  3. References

{{italic title}}

The Prise d'Orange (English: "Conquest (or Seizure) of Orange"), is an Old French chanson de geste from the end of the twelfth-century,[1] part of the cycle of chansons concerning Guillaume (or William) of Orange, generally referred to collectively as the Geste de Guillaume d'Orange.[1] Its plot concerns William's conquest of the city of Orange from the Saracens and of his marriage to its queen Orable, renamed Guibourc.

The poem comprises 1,888 decasyllable verses in assonanced laisses.[1] The poem exists in a number of manuscripts with other chansons from the same cycle. Compared to earlier chansons de geste, its tone is frequently playful, comic and parodic and it introduces romantic (courtly love) elements taken from the medieval romance.[1]

Plot

The story is as follows: an escaped prisoner from Orange (Guillebert) comes to William in Nîmes and describes to him the beauties of the Saracen held city and of its queen Orable. William decides to see it for himself and succeeds in wooing the queen. After a series of adventures, William takes the city and marries a newly baptized Orable, renamed Guibourc.[1]

Notes

1. ^Hasenohr, 1204-5.

References

  • {{fr icon}} Geneviève Hasenohr and Michel Zink, eds. Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: Le Moyen Age. Collection: La Pochothèque. Paris: Fayard, 1992. {{ISBN|2-253-05662-6}}
  • {{en icon}} Urban T. Holmes Jr.. A History of Old French Literature from the Origins to 1300. New York: F.S. Crofts, 1938.

4 : Chansons de geste|12th-century books|Epic poems in French|French poems

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/11/15 11:21:48