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Feasts and Feasting in Ambroise’s Estoire de la guerre sainte. The motif of feasting runs through Estoire de la guerre sainte, this 12th-century chronicle of the third crusade. In the accuracy and truthfulness with which he presents it Ambroise shows his concern for a careful and objective record...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Français |
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2002
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Feasts and Feasting in Ambroise’s Estoire de la guerre sainte.
The motif of feasting runs through Estoire de la guerre sainte, this 12th-century
chronicle of the third crusade. In the accuracy and truthfulness with which he
presents it Ambroise shows his concern for a careful and objective recording of
events, but also his intention to praise the power of the King of England by displaying
the generosity of King Richard Lionheart. To this end he uses the vernacular literature
– romances and chansons de geste – which he seems to have a good knowledge of,
within ever following them slavishly. The way he rewrites the motif of feasting, which
is one of the work’s main features, together with his political and religious
commitments leads us to wonder about his status, somewhere between a cleric and
a jongleur, an occasional historiographer and a committed pilgrim. |
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