Word: fabliaux
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Bedier is widely known for his work on the fabliaux, and has given special attention to the question of the formation of the old French epics. The lecture will be open to members of the University and Radcliffe College, and others interested in the subject...
Professor Joseph Bedier, of the College de France, where he is the successor of Gaston Paris, will give six lectures, in French, on La Chanson de Roland, in the two weeks October 11-23. Professor Bedier, who is widely known, among other things, for his work on the fabliaux and his reconstitution of the story of Tristan et Yseut, has been giving special attention to the question of the formation of the Old French epics, and has published thus far two volumes on the Legendes Epiques. These lectures should interest students of mediaeval literature and of the relations between different...