... testimony about posthumous penance. This article uncovers how the Latin Tractatus engages the worries of its audience about the feasibility of the knight’s embodied visit to the afterlife by marshaling familiar narrative patterns from vernacular genres, including chansons de geste and romance. It shows...

..., and Hungarians—peoples on the northern and eastern fringes of Latin Europe—Christianized after the time of the histor- ical Charlemagne but before the composition of extant chansons de geste. In the Roland, pagandom encompasses a vast array of physical or ethnic types...

..., a chanson de geste describing the exploits of Guillaume d’Orange, a pagan king named Agrapars embodies racialized Saracen alterity well: his hair is curly and unkempt, his nose hooked, his body deformed and corpulent, his nails leonine, his eyes like fiery coals. Agrapars’s...

... and political affairs. Suddenly, and entirely unpredictably, theHolwat presents its audience with a short, central chanson de geste in which the Christian hero’s prowess against the infidel Saracens also represents his bravery against the faithless “Saxonis,” or English. In the case of “The Flyting...

... by Domenico Pezzini. Christian Fathers Series, vol. 77. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2016. lxxxii, 180 pp. Paper $29.95. Anon. Aiol: Chanson de geste (XIIe – XIIIe siècles) [Aiol and Elie de Saint-­ Filles]. 2 vols. Edited by Jean-­Marie Ardouin from the unique manuscript BnF fr. 25516. Les...

... with facing-­ page German translations.] Marie, de France. Poetry. Translated and edited by Dorothy Gilbert. A Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2015. xv, 407 pp. Paper $16.25. Martin, Jean-­Pierre, ed. and trans. Beuve de Hamptone: Chanson de geste anglo-­normande de la fin du XIIe...

... of the gesta as a decisive military action — the chanson de geste — to the weighted “ethical action” of moral philosophy, to Bertolt Brecht’s sense of the theatrical gestus as a disruptive kind of action or speech intended to unmask the power relations behind a given situation. Orestes’s mission is both...

..., Leslie Zarker, ed. La Geste Francor: Edition of the “Chansons de geste” of MS Marc. Fr. XIII (=256). 2 vols. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 348. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renais- sance Studies, 2009. xx, 1,483 pp.; 32 illus. $165.00. [Edition of the Venice...

..., Bloomsbury Publishing, (2011) 2014. xvi, 416 pp. Paper $44.95. Cornett / New Books across the Disciplines  201 Jones, Catherine M. An Introduction to the “Chansons de Geste.” New Per- spectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions. Gainesville: Uni- versity...

...: Becoming the Chosen People. New Directions in Religion and Literature. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. xxi, 189 pp. $110.00, paperback $29.95. 8. Narrative structures, lyric effects Alvar, Carlos, and Constance Carta, eds. In Limine Romaniae: Chanson de geste et épopée européenne. Bern...

..., with Related Texts. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing, 2011. xxx, 219 pp.; 3 maps. $44.00, paper $14.95. Hartman, A. Richard, and Sandra C. Malicote, eds. and trans. Elye of Saint-­Gilles: A Chanson de Geste [Elye de Saint Gille, part of the William of Orangle cycle]. New York: Italica Press...

... and peace-­ loving man, unjustly assaulted in craven violation of law and custom. He rises from his petition the victor, having vanquished all three of his attackers like the hero of a chanson de geste. Rutghers’s narrative of masculine honor and courageous self-­ defense — not to mention...

... is able to recite a chanson de geste without lying, there where the verse determines that the words be ordered and cut to fit the rhyme” [Nus hom ne puet chàncon de geste dire que il ne menta la ou li vers define aus mos drecier et a tailler la rime]. Gabrielle M. Spiegel, “Forging...

... Gallagher with Simon Stern. Bedford Cultural Editions. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2000. xviii, 473 pp.; 25 illus. $39.95. Bertrand de Bar-Sur-Aube. The Song of Girart of Vienne: A Twelfth- Century Chanson de Geste. Translated by Michael A. Newth. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol...

... lieutenant, Bertrand du Guesclin, were engaged in vicious attacks upon the Jewish communities of Spain—attacks that are described with revolting enthusi- asm in Cuvelier’s chanson de geste celebrating du Guesclin.126 Nor was anti- Jewish violence during the civil war confined to Henry and the French...

.... Religiöse Magie im “Buch der probaten Mittel”: Analyse, kritische Edition und Übersetzung des “Kitāb al-Muˇgarrabāt” von Muh.ammad ibn Yūsuf as-Sanūsī (gest. um 895/1490). Edited and translated by Sabine Dorpmüller. Arabische Studien, vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. vi, 274 pp. Paper...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Suzanne M. Yeager Saewulf’s Relatio de situ Jerusalem is one of the most significant yet understudied pilgrim texts of the twelfth century. Documenting the Jerusalem-bound traveler’s adventures through the medieval Mediterranean, the text is the first extant pilgrim...

.... 2, plate VI.25. 43 See Sharon Kinoshita’s essay below, “Unruly Speech: Alterity, Gender, and Nation in the Chanson de Roland,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31 (2001): 79–111; and on Richard Coer de Lyon, see Geraldine Heng...

... had been suppressed, there may have still been medieval manuscripts there for the taking.44 In addition to many manuscripts of mathematics, science, alchemy, and magic, Thomas Allen possessed important manuscripts of literary works (including the earliest known version of the Chanson de...