Abstract:The ten English Charlemagne Romances, produced in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, focus on a small group of subjects from the Matter of France that were already popular in insular French
chansons de geste
: the stories of Charlemagne's nephew, Roland, and of two Saracens who challenge Charlemagne and subsequently become Christian knights, Fierabras and Otinel. Each romance retells the original story in a new way, or creates a new narrative in response to the tradition, reflectin… Show more
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