From Chanson de Geste to Epic Chronicle: Medieval Occitan Poetry of War

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Foreword
List of Original Essays
Part I Women and Saracens in the Occitan chansons de geste
	1 Silhouettes of women in the Occitan and Old French Roland texts
	2 Belauda’s garden
	3 Aude, Iphigenia, Polyxena
	4 So dis la donna: ‘Oy, bel sira Rollan, mos maritz es en malaür lo gran’: the Saracens and the Saracen woman in Rollan a Saragossa
	5 The Saracen: from the depths of Hell to the gates of salvation
	6 Between Saracens and Christians, or the decapitated horse
Part II Aspects of war in occitan chansons de geste and lyric poetry
	7 Per las lurs armas devon tostemps cantier: intertextuality effects between Ronsasvals and certain lyric planhz
	8 The first appearance of the herald in literature and the earliest war songs of Bertran de Born
Part III The albigensian crusade
	9 Drama queen? Worse: a jongleur! – or how to discredit an opponent: the representation of Bishop Fulk of Toulouse, alias Folquet de Marseille, by the anonymous author of the Song of the Albigensian Crusade
	10 The French against Montfort?: the war councils held by Simon de Montfort in the second part of the Song of the Albigensian Crusade
	11 The good use of rebellion
	12 The Toulousains cry ‘Toulouse!’, the Gascons ‘Comminges!’ . . . The Comminges parallels in the Song of the Albigensian Crusade
	13 The troubadour and the overlord: history as viewed by the anonymous author of the Song of the Albigensian Crusade
	14 Las Novas del heretje, or who benefits from propaganda?
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