The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) / A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages

by Henry Osborn Taylor

[692] On the chansons de geste see Gaston Paris, Littérature française au moyen âge; Leon Gautier in Petit de Julleville’s Histoire de la langue et de la littérature française, vol. i.; more at length Gautier, Épopées nationales, and Paulin Paris in vol. 22 of L’Histoire littéraire de France; also Nyrop, Storia dell’ epopea francese nel medio evo. Ample bibliographies will be found in these works.

[693] On the field of Roncesvalles, Roland folds the hands of the dead Archbishop Turpin, and grieves over him, beginning:

“E! gentilz hum chevaliers de bon aire, ...”
(Roland, line 2252).

[694] Leon Gautier, in his Chevalerie, makes the chansons de geste his chief source.

[695] 1006-1016.

[696] 1051 sqq. and 1700 sqq.

[697] 1851-1868.

[698] 1940-2023.

[699] 2164 sqq.

[700] Raoul de Cambrai, cited by Gautier, Chevalerie, p. 75.