History of Provençal PoetryDerby & Jackson, 1860 - 496 pages |
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Page 344 - Adams says that the period from the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the thirteenth centuries was an interval of "almost unparalleled prosperity...
Page 186 - At that time what we might regard as a more 'puritan' ethos had emerged. The community had come through the harrowing experience of exile; God had shown his displeasure with the people once, and might do so again. So the texts relating to worship, in the form in which they have come down to us, are dominated by an awareness of sin, and an anxiety that everything possible might be done to remove the taint caused by sin. This emphasis is very clearly marked in the Psalms, where nearly half of the...
Page 161 - South. But the remarks I might make concerning these legends and fables are worth a place in a separate chapter. It is sufficient for my purpose to indicate here en passant the existence of the histories in question. In recapitulating now what I have just said on the monastic literature of the South from the end of the eighth century to the middle of the ninth, we perceive that it already includes all the germs and rudiments of a new literature. The transition, from the habit of making verses or...
Page 144 - Gaul. After this address, Louis pronounced and Charles repeated after him, each in his own tongue, the oath couched in these terms : " For the love of God, for the Christian people and for our common weal, from this day forth and so long as God shall grant me power and knowledge, I will defend this my brother and will be an aid to him in...
Page 124 - Different languages, which are brought into accidental contact with each other, naturally tend to modify, to interpenetrate and to supplant each other. Being the organs of moral and political forces, they necessarily show the pretensions and the destinies of these forces ; they triumph or they perish with them. All the languages, which coexisted in Gaul from the end of the fifth to the middle of the eighth centuries were far from having equal chances of life and of duration. But it would occupy too...
Page 144 - Pro Deo amur et pro Christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di in avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo et in...
Page 1 - ... this chapter I shall confine myself to contemplating it on its native soil, and independently of its popularity in other quarters. The history of Provencal literature, restricted as it ordinarily is, to the poetry of the Troubadours, would only embrace a period of about two hundred and fifty years ; from the end of the eleventh to the middle of the fourteenth centuries. But I think I can trace the origin and the first tentatives of this literature to a much remoter antiquity. I date its birth...
Page 196 - Burgundie there lived and throve, a truly handsome maid: Such as in all the countries round — was not, might well be said. Chriemhilda fair, the maiden hight, — a beauteous dame was she; On her account did many a knight, lose life and high degree. Three rich and nobly-meaning kings, her kin and guardians were; Gunther and Gernot twain were named — both knights beyond compare ; The third one Giselher was called, — young, strong, and versed in arms. — These brother-princes heeding watched...
Page 64 - The effect of these discourses depended, in a great measure, on the pomp and the art -with which they were delivered. We can scarcely, at present, form any conception of an art like this, unless it be from the extraordinary care, with which we know the rhetoricians to have exercised their voice. They trained it to run over long oratorical scales, from the lowest to the highest, and from the highest to the lowest note of them, and they often practised these exercises in inconvenient and embarrassing...
Page 144 - Karlo, et in aiudha et in cadhuna cosa, si cum om per dreit son fradra salvar dift, in o quid il mi altresi fazet, et ab Ludher nul plaid nunquam prindrai, qui meon vol cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit.