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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
The prologue to the Historia de preliis: a pagan model of spiritual struggle / Michel Zink -- The raid on Gaza in Alexandre de Paris's romance / Emmanuèle Baumgartner -- Alexander's Clergie / Douglas Kelly -- Alexander and Aristotle in the French Alexander Romances / Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas -- Alexander's Gabs / Franc̦ois Suard -- "Mout est proz e vassaus"/"Mout es corteis": Vasselage and courtesy in the Roman d'Alexandre / Rupert T. Pickens -- "A paine a on bon arbre de malvaise raïs": counsel for kings in the Roman d'Alexandre / William W. Kibler -- Giving fiefs and honor: largesse, avarice, and the problem of "feudalism" in Alexander's testament / Stephen D. White -- Take the world by prose: modes of possession in the Roman d'Alexandre / Michelle R. Warren -- Alexander and Caesar in the Faits des romains / Catherine Croizy-Naquet -- Alexander the Great as the icon of perfection in the epigones of the Roman d'Alexandre (1250-1450): the Utilitas of the ideal prince / Martin Gosman -- Ekphrasis and memory in the fourteenth-century Parfait du paon / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski -- Conquering Alexander: Perceforest and the Alexandrian tradition / Michelle Szkilnik -- Alexander amoroso: rethinking Alexander in the Roman de Perceforest / Jane H.M. Taylor -- From Alexander to Marco Polo, from text to image: the marvels of India / Laurence Harf-Lancner -- "Codices manuscriptos nudos tenemus": Alexander and the new codicology / Keith Busby
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