- The
chanson de geste (Old
French for 'song of
heroic deeds', from Latin:
gesta 'deeds,
actions accomplished') is a
medieval narrative, a type of epic poem...
-
songs of chansonnier,
chanson de geste and
Grand chant;
court songs of the late
Renaissance and
early Baroque music periods, air
de cour; po****r songs...
-
Chanson d'Aspremont (or
simply Aspremont, or Agolant) is a 12th-century Old
French chanson de geste (before 1190). The poem
comprises 11, 376
verses (unusually...
- The Song of
Roland (French: La
Chanson de Roland) is an 11th-century
chanson de geste based on the
deeds of the
Frankish military leader Roland at the...
- ****don is a
chanson de geste written in
about 1230 AD. It
recounts the
story of Thierry,
friend of
Charlemagne in the
Chanson de Roland, for whom "****don"...
- all
these feats with the ****istance of the
fairy king Oberon. The
chanson de geste that
survives (in
three more or less
complete m****cripts and two short...
- The
Chanson de Guillaume, also
called Chançun
de Willame (English: "Song of William"), is a
chanson de geste from the
first half of the twelfth-century...
-
Basin is a
chanson de geste about Charlemagne's childhood.
While the Old
French epic poem has been lost, the
story has come down to us via a 13th-century...
- then gave it to Roland.
According to the 12th-century
fragmentary chanson de geste known as
Mainet (referring to the
pseudonym that
Charlemagne adopted...
- form was
generally dictated by the genre. The Old
French epics ("
chansons de geste") are
generally written in ten-syllable ****onanced "laisses", while...
