La Chanson d'Antioche
by Paris, Alexis Paulin, Richard le pèlerin, Graindor de Douay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Text is first edition, one of 500 copies on laid rag paper ("papier d'Hollande" - copy # not filled in), binding probably not contemporary, Very good condition, with a little foxing, particularly in first part of volume. Includes all eight of the chansons.
The famous chanson de geste in 9000 lines, known in a version of a lost original composed about 1180 and attributed to Richard le Pèlerin, a pilgrim who was on the spot and began composition during the siege of Antioch, inspired by the events of 1097–99. The climax of the First Crusade, the conquest of Antioch and Jerusalem, laid the foundations of the Crusader states. The Chanson was elaborated and to a degree mythologized and became part of the Crusader cycle of romances popular in the 14th century.
The Chanson was pretty much forgotten until it was printed and published in 1848 (during the Gothic Revival) by the French scholar and medievalist Alexis Paulin Paris (1800-1881), the first holder of the chair of Medieval literature at the Collège de France,
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- Bookseller
- Setton Book Collection (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5
- Title
- La Chanson d'Antioche
- Author
- Paris, Alexis Paulin, Richard le pèlerin, Graindor de Douay
- Format/Binding
- Red cloth, prob. not contemporary, tanned spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J Techener
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1848
- Size
- 7 3/4" x 4 1/4" x 2 1/2"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Crusades, conquest of Jerusalem, Antioch, Crusader States, Medieval history, 11th century, 12th century
- Bookseller catalogs
- The Crusades; Byzantine History; Medieval History;
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- First Edition
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