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Saints in the Roman de Renart
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Balombin, Clare Ruth
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374062333
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Year and Degree
2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, French and Italian.
Abstract
The Roman de Renart is a cycle of 12th and 13th century vernacular tales in octosyllabic verse centering on the interactions between a sly, conniving fox and his acquaintances. Each of three major manuscript families of the Roman de Renart constitutes a compilation of between 26 and 31 episodes with about 30,000 verses. In each family over 60 different saints are invoked, identified based on examination of their life, legends, and geographic placement. The import and semiotics of the frequent invocation of saints has been neglected throughout the centuries. It deserves study because calling upon a particular saint can encapsulate a rich deposit of narrative, geographic, and symbolic information that the numerous, mostly anonymous, authors manipulated to humorous, ironic, or subversive effect. This dissertation considers the role of saints in high medieval French culture and demonstrates the reasons for the choice of particular saints in selected episodes of the Roman de Renart.
Committee
Sarah-Grace Heller (Committee Chair)
Anna Grotans (Committee Member)
Diane Birckbichler (Committee Member)
Pages
281 p.
Subject Headings
Foreign Language
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Medieval Literature
Keywords
Roman de Renart
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saints
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French medieval literature
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invocations
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Balombin, C. R. (2013).
Saints in the Roman de Renart
[Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374062333
APA Style (7th edition)
Balombin, Clare.
Saints in the Roman de Renart.
2013. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374062333.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Balombin, Clare. "Saints in the Roman de Renart." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374062333
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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