Proceedings of the Colloquium of the Société Rencesvals British Branch held at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, 27–28 March 2004

edited by Philip E. Bennett, Anne Elizabeth Cobby, Jane E. Everson

British Rencesvals Publications 4

Edinburgh 2006

ISBN 978 0 9519791 5 0

In March 2004 the British Branch of the Société Rencesvals marked the completion of the ten-volume Old French Crusade Cycle, edited by Jan A. Nelson and Emanuel J. Mickel, by making ‘Epic and Crusade’ the theme of its annual colloquium.  This volume is the proceedings of that colloquium.

Rima Devereaux, ‘Constantinople as Model:  Riches and Poverty in Girart de Roussillon and Robert de Clari’s Conquête de Constantinople’

Margaret Jubb, ‘Saladin in the Continuations of the Chanson de Jérusalem’

Emanuel Mickel, ‘Writing the Record:  The Old French Crusade Cycle’

Leslie Zarker Morgan, ‘Crusade as Metaphor:  Variations on an Epic Theme in Huon d’Auvergne’

Peter Noble, ‘1204, The Crusade without Epic Heroes’

David G. Pattison, ‘Crusade and Reconquest in the Poema de mio Cid’

Finn E. Sinclair, ‘Visions and Re-visions:  Narrating Identity in Le Voyage de Charlemagne’

Carol Sweetenham, ‘Antioch and Flanders:  Some Reflections on the Writing of the Chanson d’Antioche’

Nigel Thorp, ‘La Chanson de Jérusalem and the Latin Chronicles’