Isobel Cree examines early medieval nationalism in La Chanson de Roland, one of the oldest surviving works of French literature.
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Author: Isobel Cree
Isobel is a third-year French and Spanish student at Merton. She’ll tell you that her area of interest is narration in medieval French Arthurian literature, although she puts off studying this by learning Catalan and spending time with her dog, Rosie.
Coherence and Communication in Medieval French Literature: Narrative distortion in the Vulgate Cycle
The Vulgate Cycle is the first French Arthurian cycle in prose (c. 1215-35). A cycle is a series of texts about common characters, who are generally adapted from myth or history. I chose the cycle’s …
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