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A fabliau (French pronunciation:; plural fabliaux) is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France between c. 1150 and 1400. They are generally characterized by sexual and scatological obscenity , and by a set of contrary attitudes—contrary to the church and to the nobility. [ 1 ]
The eight phases of The Song of Roland in one picture.. The chanson de geste (Old French for 'song of heroic deeds', [a] from Latin: gesta 'deeds, actions accomplished') [1] is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature. [2]
The new poetic (as well as musical: some of the earliest medieval music has lyrics composed in Old French by the earliest composers known by name) tendencies are apparent in the Roman de Fauvel in 1310 and 1314, a satire on abuses in the medieval church filled with medieval motets, lais, rondeaux and other new secular forms of poetry and music ...
Modern theories of the fabliaux and the chansons de geste are based on two of Bédier's studies. [citation needed] Bédier revived interest in several important old French texts, including Tristan et Iseut (1900), La chanson de Roland (1921), and Les fabliaux (1893). He was a member of the Académie française from 1920 until his death.
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An Ode for Music ('dramatic oratorio', 1750) Jean-Joseph de Mondonville – Coeli enarrant gloria (1750) Johann Adolph Hasse – La conversione di Sant' Agostino (1750) George Frideric Handel – Jephtha (1752) Carl Heinrich Graun – Der Tod Jesu (1755) [10] George Frideric Handel – The Triumph of Time and Truth (1757) John Stanley ...
The husband's initial antagonistic behavior cues the gender moral of the story: constantly demeaning a clever wife can be dangerous. [2] In order to find out her husband, the wife disguises herself as a knight who she calls “Berangier au lonc cul” [Bernagier of the long arse].
Gautier le Leu (born 1210?), sometimes referred to as Gautier le Long, was a French minstrel who wrote in the middle of the 13th century. He is one of the most important authors of fabliaux, six of which are attributed to him (mostly on erotic and scatological topics) and also wrote two dits, a poem of proverbs, and a longer narrative poem.