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Song of Roland (better version is part of Middle Ages Lit power point

Song of Roland (better version is part of Middle Ages Lit power point. Romance. First epics are heroic; thereafter they take on characteristics of the romance Assimilating loves stories written in the spirit of courtly love

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Song of Roland (better version is part of Middle Ages Lit power point

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  1. Song of Roland(better version is part of Middle Ages Lit power point

  2. Romance • First epics are heroic; thereafter they take on characteristics of the romance • Assimilating loves stories written in the spirit of courtly love • A tradition that idealized women and turned the conventions of human love almost literally into a religion • Earlier Romances, chansons de geste (Songs of Deeds). like Roland, are men-at-war

  3. Background • Written in Old French circa 1100 • Composed 300 years earlier • Oral songs accompanied by lyres. • Song of Roland is the earliest and best known example of the Song of Deed romance. • Unknown until 1832 when the first of several manuscripts was discovered. • The best of these is at Oxford University that is a copy by an Anglo-Norman scribe of an earlier version. • Many conspiracies and hypotheses about the origin, poet, and facts of Roland

  4. Background • We think this was written at the beginning of the Crusades. By telling a story of the Great Charlemagne, the hope is to inspire current fighters. • The values of the poem are simply identified. • Exclusively deal with war and religion • Success in battle is vital, not only for personal reasons but also to prove God is on your side • Christians are good, Saracens are evil • although some are great warriors and honorable • philosophical subtleties are absent, as are inward conflicts

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